The travails of trying to complete the sale on a property, of any type, are well known and frankly in the current economic climate that is so badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic we are currently living through, those efforts are only going to prove all the more cumbersome.
Attempting to sell a property for the value which you’ve personally placed on it, can of course be aided by the addition of the right furniture to give the property a sense of its purpose and helps to better equate the property to the expectations of prospective buyers.
This is of course more relevant for residential property than office showings, but is a viable option to consider for both.
The act, and delivery, of ‘Home Staging’ is a fine art and one that is well known by those in the real estate industry and there are some tips to getting it right. For instance one key suggestion in this field is to put particular attention to a specific room, as opposed to the relative cost of decking out an entire property in luxury furniture.
Essentially by putting in the extra effort needed to do this right you are helping a buyer paint a picture, you are making it easier for them to visualize how the property could feel if it were in their own hands.
For this very reason you need to pay close attention when it comes to selecting the relevant furniture for these needs, and a key tip many have is that you should avoid being too unique and individualistic.
You need to go for a neutral feel as there is every chance that if you elect for a design style that is too off the wall or outside of the box, that you could scare off that very element of visualization you are attempting to create.
A good tip is to think about just how you’d like the property to look from your perspective, put yourself in the shoes of a potential buyer and use a reasonable budget, and adhere to any time constraints, and try to make it happen.
This is also very relevant for office space real estate when you can not afford to skimp and should therefore elect to use commercial grade furniture of the highest quality. Again, the intention here is to elaborate on the sense of the opportunity that is resplendent in the property you are showing to possible buyers.
There is a school of thought that selling property without furniture does offer some benefits, chiefly the element of size is accentuated by the complete lack of what could be consider clutter and some believe that the empty property can allow some buyers to dream about just what they could do with the blank slate they have been presented with.
The complete absence of furniture, for residential property selling, is something of a double-edged sword. Doing so creates space but also can give off something of an unfriendly, and unhomely feel and some buyers may be immediately put off by the lack of context to what they are being shown.
Selling a house is very much about painting a picture and while a minimalist picture creates a sense of opportunity it can feel cold, a more inviting landscape, that has details of color and design, is for many a much more pliable commodity to sell.
Perhaps one sure fire way to know what works is the knowledge that there is in fact a whole industry that revolves around the art of ‘home staging’ which should give you some idea as to the obvious resultant benefits of having your real estate decked out in furniture that has been planned out to an overall design.
The related costs of doing so are minimal when you factor in the likely assistance it provides when it comes to a) selling your property and b) selling your property in a timely manner.
A lot does of course depend on the overall real estate market you find yourself in when you are ready to sell, but either way you’ll want, and need, to make your property stand out from the crowd and what better way to do so than to make it as close to the finished article as is practically possible.
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