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 e ff ect 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 ident ifi ed that staging would positively in fl uence 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 o ff ered between 1 percent and 5 percent compared similar homes on the market that are not staged. Th e most common home improvement items agents recommended to sellers were decluttering the home (93 percent), entire home cleaning (89 percent), carpet cleaning (81 percent), and removing pets during showings (80 percent). Most buyers form an opinion about a home within th e fir st 7–10 seconds of arriving. Source: National Association of REALTORS®
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