Staging For Success: Get Poised to Sell Your Home
There are a few basic rules in life and one that can be carried into almost any situation is the old saying, “if you fail to plan, plan to fail”. No one likes to fail, but failing to plan could be a sure way to not see success. This is especially true in real estate when it comes to placing your home up for sale. Preparing your home for new buyers requires a lot of planning, thought, and attention to detail. One way that gets your home ready for a quick sale is with home staging.
What is Home Staging
You see it every time you turn on HGTV or some other house-flipping show. Home staging has quickly become recognized as a necessity to highlight your home for its maximum potential. A norm for almost any home at any price point, home staging can set the stage for a quick real-estate sale. Overall, the goal is to help prospective home buyers emotionally connect with a property that hopefully leads to an offer to buy.
Who Hires Home Stagers?
Staging may seem like an additional hassle and expense, but the investment can really pay off in the end and possibly lead to an above-asking price offer for your home. Overall, anyone selling or buying property may benefit from home staging. Homeowners selling single-family homes, condos, and townhouses make up the greatest percentage of those hiring home stagers. Even property developers selling new construction, and real estate agents and property managers also are in the mix. While home staging was created primarily to benefit the seller, seeing prospective properties staged and organized also can be advantageous to buyers because it can cut down on their search time.
Benefits of Home Staging
Most people have trouble visualizing a space’s potential. Whether it’s figuring out how to place furniture in an empty room or trying to ignore clutter or decor that’s clearly not their style. Realizing that the majority of home buyers can’t easily look past what’s in front of them to appreciate a room’s potential, it’s easy to see that home staging could be beneficial to the home selling process. Staging helps buyers see what might get lost in an otherwise cluttered or unorganized home. As reported by the National Association of Realtors, 44% of buyers’ agents say that home staging can increase the dollar value offered. And 83% say that staging a home makes it easier for potential buyers to visualize the property as their dream home! And less time on the market means less taxes, less mortgage payments, and less time you have to keep the house staged.
Does it Matter Which Rooms Are Staged?
While every room in the house could benefit from home staging, that might not be in your budget. So if you must choose a room, or rooms, it would be best to focus on the higher priority rooms including kitchen, living room then master bedroom followed by the guest bathroom. And don’t overlook those empty nooks or spaces, they could easily be turned into a small desk/office space to handle all of the daily mail clutter.
You can certainly attempt to stage your home on your own. It will save some money, but it is much harder to stage your own home and will likely take a lot of time out of your already busy schedule. Something key to remember is that when you’re selling your home, it is not about you anymore. It’s about the buyers and making your home as appealing as possible to attract the right buyer in the least amount of time. It’s important that your home reflects all of its potential so the future home-buyer can see your home as move-in-ready.
We have lots of tips and tricks that we can help you with when it comes to preparing homes for the real estate market. Even if you plan to rent your home, home staging is ideal to attract the right tenants to your property. Tradewind Properties is here to help you in selling your home and with home staging.