An important step is choosing accessories and furniture to dress up your newfound space, creating a welcoming and warm environment. Home staging makes prospective buyers see all the possibilities of purchasing the home and living in it. They need to be able to imagine their own lives taking place in each part of the home. Money spent on staging should not be considered a waste, but should be thought of as an investment or simply the cost of doing business, and it will be recovered when the property is sold. It will pay off in the long run when the home’s perceived value is boosted.
DOES HOME STAGING WORK?
According to data from NAR®, 31% of sellers' agents said that home staging greatly decreased the amount of time a home spent on the market. They are most viewed by buyers as “well- maintained” and “must-see” houses, and subsequently sell at higher prices. When it comes to acquiring real estate, most prospective buyers think they can overlook empty rooms or poor décor and see only potential, but they really do not. The sole purpose of staging is to make it easy for prospective buyers to envision how they will live in the house. It gives an example of the type of comfort and life that prospective buyers can have in the house without investing it with the seller’s personality. This is the main reason that successful builders have model suites and model homes. Experienced home sellers discover that the same principles from modeling a home are also useful in the resale market, and they rely on professional home stagers to make sure that they sell at a higher price and get off the market quickly.
When hunting for a house, home buyers start with a reasonable
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