home will be easier to sell. This is sometimes known as “interior curb appeal,” where the eyes are drawn to inviting spaces and light, as well as to unique features. Each room needs a purpose or suggested use. The home must feel new to reflect ease of upkeep. The goal is to create a clean, simple, and contemporary feel. Painting, updating fixtures, and eliminating stained carpets and popcorn ceilings can affect the saleability of the home by 75 percent!
HOME-STAGING STATISTICS
Staging the Outdoor Spaces has become much more critical as “outdoor entertaining” is hot! Forty-nine percent of buyers’ agents cited that home staging had an effect on most buyers view of the home. Seventy-seven percent of buyers’ agents said staging a home made it easier for a buyer to visualize the property as a future home. Buyers were more willing to walk through a home they saw online (40 percent), and buyers’ agents identified that staging would positively influence the home value if the home was decorated to a buyer’s taste (38 percent). Staging the living room for buyers was found to be most important (55 percent), followed by staging the master bedroom (51 percent), and staging the kitchen (41 percent). About one-third of buyers’ agents said that staging a home increased the dollar value offered between 1 percent and 5 percent compared similar homes on the market that are not staged.
The most common home improvement items agents
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