Home Staging 101

Home staging is a hot topic within the news media, it is not a new term, but for many years has not been overlooked do to the average market time being less then 30 days. Real estate agents and the concept of professional home staging is shedding new light on how to promote a home in the real estate marketplace. Home staging is all over the media with shows like "Designed to Sell" highlighting the importance of getting your home market ready and is critical in today's competitive market. It has become a multi-million dollar business in America.   Home Staging is an inexpensive but proven process for maximizing a home's resale value.  Home Staging is much more than just helping sellers decorate their homes it is your competitive edge to prepare your home to appeal to the broadest market.

Staging will create the positive first impression you need to sell your home faster.  It is what you do after you've cleaned, de-cluttered, painted, made minor repairs; it's all about dressing the house for sale.  It makes your house look bigger, brighter, cleaner, warmer, more loving and, best of all; it makes home buyers want to buy it.  Staging starts from the outside with curb appeal, inside with unique furniture placement and follows through to the back yard.   

A vacant home can solve these problems for the buyer by taking a otherwise cold, lifeless bleak, barren house feel warm and homey and make it well, like a home, which is the point.

On average staged homes typically sell faster and/or for more money than un-staged homes. Homes staged before being listed sold for almost 6 percent more than homes that were listed, staged and then sold, according to a study by stagedhomes.