Tower Hill

Only expensive houses need to be staged, right?

Spending $150.00 for an initial home staging consultation along with a full day of staging for $360.00 will benefit home sellers by thousands of dollars in return when the house sells.  Your home will sell quicker and for more money done corrctly.  This is based on real estate statistics of the benefits of home staging reports since 2007.

But, If the housing market is improving then I don’t need to stage my home, right?

Most houses will eventually sell when the price has been repeatedly reduced and someone from the neighborhood just wants to live in that town near the family perhaps. It’s a matter of when and for how much. Even if your house sells quickly in a good market, it doesn’t mean it sold for the amount it would have sold for had it been professionally staged. Professionally staged homes sell for at least 6% more than an unstaged home . If your home sold for 400K unstaged it probably would have sold for 425K staged. Now compare the cost of having your home staged….

Can I just stage my own home?

With some drection from a home stager after an initial evaluation, yes, you probably could.  Its not easy to see for many people to see their homes with an objective eye.  few people can effectively do that.  It’s hard to see your own homes inperfections since over the years you have worked hard to make it warm and welcoming. It is difficult emotionally to change how it looks and perhaps feels just for the sake of selling it. If you can’t view something objectively then you would have a hard time marketing it effectively.

Will prospective homebuyers look past my things and my furniture and see the hidden potential in  my home?

Not very often. Only 10% of prospective homebuyers can visualize the potential of a home. Its even tougher when the house is vacant. That makes your home even harder to imagine.  Furniture helps to give home buyers a frame of reference for both size and scale within your home.

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