"Is home staging truly necessary, when selling my home?" is a common question I hear people who have never contemplated selling their home in today's market. I've even been asked, "Is home staging really going to make me more money or am I simply wasting money to make the sale easier on my realtor?"
The answers to these questions are: yes home staging is necessary, and yes a more
appealing home may be an easier sale for your real estate agent, but more importantly the sale will be easier on you, the home owner!
There is no sales person in the world that can sell someone on the idea that a pig skin is in fact a silk purse.
Let's look at selling your home from a different angle.
Are you comfortable with loosing on average 6-10% of the value of your home because you chose not to stage your home for sale?
Let’s say your answer is, “Sure what is 6-10% (minus estimated cost to stage) of my value? That doesn’t sound like a lot.”
Okay well if your home is worth $430,000, which is the average price of a home in Toronto and you chose not to stage your home for sale then you lost (minus estimated cost of staging) $10,750 to $21,500.
Can you honestly afford not to stage your home?
If you are interested in finding out what type of savings you can make by staging your home for sale, click on the link provided by RESA (Real Estate Staging Association).
Bare in mind, the calculations provided do not include how much more a buyer will offer when your home has been staged by a professional staging company.
If you would like to see before and after pictures of homes that have been successfully staged, click on the logo below.
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