Seven Benefits of Staging Your Home for Sale

Benefits of Staging Your Home for Sale

Benefits of Staging Your Home for Sale
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Have you ever visited a home for sale that was clean, organized and had all the right furnishing and decor? What you saw was most likely a staged home.

Staging a home involves much more than painting the walls a neutral color and setting placemats on the dining table. Professional home stagers make your home appealing to as many potential buyers as possible, helping you sell your home quickly and at top market value.

Hiring a professional home stager is an investment. However, here are seven benefits you stand to gain from their services:

  1. Staged Homes Sell Faster: The longer your house is up for sale, the less money you get to keep in your pocket. If you want to sell your house fast and get top dollar for it, you need to do everything you can to maximize its appeal.

    Staging your home can help you attract more buyers and increase your chances of a quick sale. The best home stagers can make your home appealing to a wide variety of potential buyers, all with unique, personal tastes.

    When buyers can easily visualize themselves living in your home, they’re more likely to put an offer on the house. Although hiring a home stager may be an upfront investment, you can potentially save money by reducing your house’s time on the market.

    Staged Homes Sell Faster
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  2. Potential Buyers Are More Likely to Visit a Staged Home: When it comes to selling your home, first impressions matter. A clean, organized home will look far better in listing pictures than a cluttered, messy space.

    Even a unique wall color can make people decide not to visit your home. A quirky color that looks great in person may not look as good in a listing.

    Home staging can help make your home look better in listings and encourage buyers to make that first critical step of visiting your home. Staging just one area, such as the living room, can make a huge difference in the number of people who want to view your home.

  3. It Can Increase the Selling Price: With great home staging, you can increase the perceived value of your home and potentially sell your home for a higher price. According to a survey by the National Association of Realtors, nearly 30 percent of respondents reported a 1 to 5 percent increase in the dollar value buyers offered.

    It’s important to note that staging your home isn’t a guarantee that your home’s selling price will increase. That depends on many factors, including how competitive the market currently is and whether you’re simply eliminating clutter or doing small improvements to light fixtures.

    However, it can help you sell your home at the upper end of your home’s going price range. For example, a home that would typically sell between $300K and $350K might fetch a sale price closer to $350K due to excellent staging.

  4. It Will Motivate You to Clean and Pack: Does the thought of de-cluttering your home sound daunting? Look at it this way: You’re already planning to move, and now is as good a time as any to begin the packing process.

    Unless you’re hiring a local packing service to pack all your boxes for you, it’s a chore that must be done before the big move. By staging your home, you can get an early start on the packing process and spruce up your house for potential buyers.

  5. It Gives Buyers a Move-In Ready Home: Although purchasing a fixer-upper is a growing trend, most buyers look for a turnkey residence. They want a home they can picture themselves living in from the very beginning.

    A staged home gives the impression of a move-in ready home, which is extremely appealing to buyers. The less work they need to do upon moving in, the more likely potential buyers will be to make an offer.

    It Gives Buyers a Move-In Ready Home
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  6. It Shows the Purpose of Every Room: If you have small rooms or strangely-shaped rooms that don’t serve a clear purpose, home staging can make all the difference. Staging your home allows you to give each room in your home a role to show buyers how they could use the space and make them want to live there.

    For example, a small room with no function can be transformed into a library or office with home staging. Buyers can clearly see the value of the room when it’s staged in this way, as opposed to a blank canvas with zero closet space.

  7. You Can Do It Yourself: Professional home stagers are experts at optimizing the value of your home to buyers. However, they can be costly, both in time and money.

    If you don’t have the money or time to spend on a professional, you can stage your home by yourself in a few simple ways. Cleaning and de-cluttering your home is a must for any DIY home stager.

    Another key home staging tactic is depersonalizing your home. This involves taking down any family photos or personal touches in your home that could possibly make it difficult for a buyer to visualize themselves living there.

Should You Stage Your Home?: While there are many benefits to staging your home, this doesn’t always mean it’s a smart choice for every homeowner. If you’re selling your home in a seller’s market, there is probably no need for such services.

However, those who are selling their homes during the off-season (October – February) or selling in a buyer’s market may want to consider home staging. A few simple arrangements and decor may be the key to getting your house off the market faster.

About Ross Burgess

Ross Burgess is a home improvement expert and design professional based out of Atlanta, GA. When he’s not designing beautiful spaces, you can find him blogging and researching the latest home décor ideas.

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