How Can Home Staging Help Sell Your Property

When you sell your home, you usually have two basic goals in mind – to sell the property as quickly as possible and to get your asking price for it. But you better brace yourself as the modern home buyer can be demanding and real-estate savvy, fired up with tips and knowledge to get the best deal he or she can based on Google’s advice. Naturally, you need to have an advantage to get your house sold and noticed and that’s where home staging comes it.

What is Home Staging?

Home staging is a real estate marketing tool that helps prepare and design a house to appear in the best possible light. Statistics also back it up. Professionally staged properties spend 73% less time on the market, usually sells for more money, are generally viewed as well-maintained properties which translates also into more inquiries about it and end up on buyers’ must-see lists. And buyers typically find less faults in the house and ask for less concessions versus those that aren’t home staged.

Does Home Staging Work?

If you don’t believe in the numbers, then ask yourself this simple question – if you were buying a house and looking at two options in the same neighborhood that had basically the same look and asking price, which house would you go for – Option 1 that looks clean, updated, decorated and clutter-free or would you go for Option 2 that might be clean but still looks like someone else is living in it?

This is also the reason why home staging is best left for professionals. Rather than going through the added stress of de-cluttering and fixing everything up, getting a home stager and not doing it for yourself is beneficial because it’s not just the actual decorating that counts, it’s that the home stager will be able to give an objective view of your house and work on that. Whereas you might think that some or most items in the house are okay because they were picked by you. Remember, it’s not personal but a buyer chooses a house and not really your home. A home stager may retain some of your items and add on new accessories and furniture. The end goal is to leave the house with enough personality to make it interesting but generic enough for the buyer to envision living there for himself. And that’s tough to distinguish when you look at it through the eyes of a homeowner.

Home staging helps refresh a home and makes it look well-maintained and cared for – we all know that items in mint condition get sold easier and for a higher price. The market might be up or down but first impressions count and will work for you if you do it right.