Home Staging Boosts Selling Power!
Ask our knowledgeable agents to advise you on preparing your home for sale. Most homes show better with about half of the furniture removed. If a buyer walks in the door and wonders whether anybody lives in the house, you’ve done your job correctly. Consider home-staging to boost your selling power and appeal.
If you’re looking to sell your home for top dollar, staging the property can help you do it. Simply put, staging means preparing the home for a potential buyer(setting the stage), if you will. It involves redecorating, rearranging/removing furniture, cleaning and other aesthetic strategies to present the home in the best possible light and to make the home as appealing as possible to the most potential buyers.
Benefits of Home Staging
For one, it makes it easier for interested buyers to picture themselves in the home. It provides without clutter, personal photographs and other items that might turn off a buyer. Roughly seventy-seven percent of buyers say it’s easier to visualize a staged property as a future home.
Staging also makes a home look move-in ready. This gives potential buyers a sense that it doesn’t seem to need a lot of work or repair before they could move in. Approximately seventy-one percent of buyers are looking for a move-in ready home. Staging helps give that impression and could be a nice advantage for you in successfully selling your home.
Not only that but staging makes it easier to market a home. It looks better in listing photos and is also more eye-catching when shared on social media, printed flyers or displayed in social media platforms. As a result, staged homes typically sell faster. According to research, sixty-two percent of agents say staging has an impact on a home’s listing time on the market.
Options for Home Staging
When looking to stage your home, you have a few options. You can choose to do the process yourself or you can look to the professionals at Good Thing Realty to help recommend or to do the work on your behalf.
DIY: Doing your home staging yourself can be a good option. Providing that you’re confident in your abilities to design and present the property, you may be able to save some cash. Some of the small touches you might want to consider include: repainting or touching up the walls and trim, rearranging or removing some of your furniture. Simple things like adding new throw pillows, removing any personal photos or décor and adding fresh flowers make a huge difference in presentation.
If you do decide to stage your home yourself, you’ll want to consider the costs of things like:
- Paint and home repair supplies.
- Storage units and organizers, if you’ll be decluttering.
- New furniture and décor.
- Floral arrangements.
- Cleaning supplies.
Your Real Estate Agent: Our real estate agents believe strongly in staging’s ability to improve a home sale and will gladly help their clients prepare and stage the home before photographing, listing, or beginning to market it.
Professional Stagers: If you’re looking for more help and recommendations on better ways to stage your home, you can opt for a staging company. There are experts in this field who often have interior decorating, design or even real estate experience that can really work in your favor.
Though these pros do come at a fee, they typically do the work for you. They will evaluate your home’s current condition, to make recommendations on how to improve its overall appeal to potential buyers. This helps increase marketability by putting those suggestions into action. This may include rearranging the furniture, bringing in new décor or helping you declutter.
Take-away
Home staging may increase the likelihood that you’ll sell your property and do so quickly, and for the highest amount possible. Home staging can certainly help If you’re on a tight timeline or looking to boost your profits on the sale. This may be especially true if your market is particularly competitive for sellers by ensuring your home is more memorable, beautiful and stands out from the pack.