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In today's market, you need to ensure that your listings are pleasing to even the pickiest home buyers. Effective home staging can give your listings a clear advantage.

  • Maximize a Home's Best Features - A good home stager will use design elements to highlight the sellable features of the home including architectural details, efficient use of space, logical organization, and rational traffic flow.
  • Minimize a Home's Flaws - Effective home staging can compensate for features of a home that may not be attractive or useful to buyers. By using the right elements, you can direct the attention of homebuyers away from aspects of a home that could be viewed as negative.
  • Put Homebuyers into Your Listing - Home staging can give potential buyers an emotional connection to your listing. People feel more likely to imagine themselves in an inviting, professionally staged home, than an empty, cold property.
  • Make a Great First Impression - When a house is staged properly, it not only looks better in person, but also in pictures. Staging your listings can result in more internet traffic and showings as well as fewer days on market. Some photo companies are now offering virtual home staging for vacant properties.
  • Add Value to Your Services - Home staging is a great way to add value to your services as a real estate professional. You want to ensure that a potential client knows that the presentation of their home is important to you. You may even consider including a home staging consultation with your listing contracts.

Home staging can be a simple solution to make your listings stand out.

Catherine Ulrey
Keller Williams Capital City - Salem, OR
Equestrian and Acreage Property Specialist

Staging is more important now than ever!

Sep 15, 2010 10:38 AM
Adam Malachi
A 2 Z Realty LLC - Castle Rock, CO
QSC,CDPE,CIPS,CNE,CRB,CRS,GRI,MRE,SFR

Hello Melissa,

Great post! Staging do works! The listing broker/agent needs to convince/sell the seller on home staging!

Thank you very much for sharing,

Adam

Sep 15, 2010 03:08 PM
Janine Bell
Stage It Atlanta - Atlanta, GA
Home Stager - Atlanta Georgia Home Stager

Melissa, staging is key in this market to getting the foot traffic and therefore a sale.

Sep 16, 2010 01:27 AM