How can a Home Stager help you when selling? Curious as to the what, why, when of home staging? Why is home staging all the buzz on TV home selling shows? Here is a rundown of the basics to guide you through what it is all about.
WHAT
Home Staging is using limited funds, practical creativity, and extraordinary expertise to professionally preparing a home to sell so that it becomes infinitely more attractive to the potential buyer. A professionally staged home sells quickly, for more money while in turn becoming a small investment for the home seller but that investment allows greater home sale earnings.” Audra Slinkey, President of HSR
That is a mouthful! Basically a professional home stager will ensure that your house will be prepared to entice the largest range of buyers.
What are the advantages of professionally staging your home?
Sellers Have a Difficult Time Being Objective – This is your home. A place where you have created memories, spent time, effort making it feel like yours, putting your imprint- personality into the spaces. A house is a product vying for buyers. It now has to stand out above all the other houses on the market. It needs to appeal to buyers, not you.
WHEN should you consider Home Staging
Some Realtors and home sellers will say that they have already “staged” their homes. Then only to find that they will be lowering their price within the month. There is a vast difference between a home that was simply de-cluttered and cleaned and one that was professionally staged!
Creating the “model home” look is not easily achieved. Having a professional that does this every day for a living can help. By staging your home professionally it will resonate stronger with buyers. Compelling buyers to consider your home seriously in their search. A professional keeps an eye on who is the buyer while ensuring the property conveys value.
WHY Home Staging
You, Will, Make More Money – According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) the average staging investment is between 1 to 4% of the home’s listing price; that investment generates a return between 6% to 10%. A professional Home Stager knows how to direct you in investing money to prepare your home.
Creating a Product that Resonates with Buyers –A professional Home Stager is an expert at marketing the inside of a home so the spaces emotionally respond to buyers. By focusing on how to package a house a Home Stager utilizes key elements in your rooms and will enhance the spaces so buyers respond to the product. We help you protect the equity in your home.
Ease the Pressures of Selling – Putting a house on the market can be stressful. How do you prepare the house for sale, what are buyers looking for, how do you organize and declutter- what is the difference? A professional Home Stager will help create logic from the chaos, they will recommend updates that will give you a return on your investment and show you ways to improve your spaces for a minimal investment.
Benefits the Marketing of the Home – Today 95% of buyers look for their next home online. If the pictures of the rooms do not resonate with buyers, they will not schedule an appointment to see the property. Did you know according to the NAR (National Association of Realtors) that a staged home is 80% more likely to be scheduled to be seen by buyers over a home that has not been professionally staged? The more traffic you have through your home, the sooner it will sell.
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