In the thick of the house-selling season, especially if you live in a market where sellers dominate the market because of a limited number of homes for sale, you may think home staging is something you can safely skip. Think again.
Fifty percent of agents said that staging increases the dollar value of offers on a home by one to 10 percent, according to the National Association of Realtor’s Profile of Home Staging. In addition, 39 percent of agents said that staging greatly decreases the amount of time a home is on the market.
“Selling your home is like selling any new product: You want to make a great first impression,” said Samantha Rose Frith, a real estate agent with Warburg Realty in New York City. “Once you’ve listed your home for sale, the first two weeks are going to be the most important. That’s when your listing is fresh and it will invariably draw the largest number of buyers to open houses and showings.”
Staging your home, especially if it’s vacant, represents one of the best ways to make that good impression.
“Many of our clients ask us why a potential buyer needs to see someone else’s furniture in a house they’re considering buying.,” said Joel Moss, a real estate agent with Warburg Realty in New York City. “It’s a good question and one that points to one of the great paradoxes of selling a home: An empty house seems smaller than a furnished one—the presence of furniture actually expands the sense of space in a home and makes it feel larger. Not only that, it’s difficult for even the most discerning buyer to envisage living in an apartment or house if it’s empty.”
Here are 6 quick ways to properly stage your home for a quick sell at the price you want.
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1 Paint. Don’t overlook the value of a quality paint job in making a good first impression. Keep the palette neutral and light (we usually recommend decorator’s or linen white, although light gray works nicely too). This is especially important if the home or apartment is painted a bold or dark color.
2. Make small repairs. The minute a potential buyer enters a property, they will start making a mental checklist of all the reasons the property isn’t worth the asking price. A leaky faucet or moldy caulk might not seem like a big deal if you’ve lived there for the last ten years, but they will almost always factor into a lower offer.
3. Emphasize the space. Not only do rooms in empty homes seem smaller than they are, they rarely photograph well. If there’s no furniture there, get your hands on some, either by renting or borrowing it.
4. Keep it real. If you really want to see how your favorite couch will fit into that living room, so-called “virtual staging” tools may allow you to do so. The same goes for sellers: It’s possible to add images of furniture to photographs to show a home’s potential, which can help a buyer see what they might do with it. But none of that has lessened the value of actual staging. Even if you want to do some virtual staging, you should set aside some of your budget for actual staging – taking the steps to paint, furnish and decorate your home.
5. Brighter is always better. Your staging shouldn’t just emphasize the space in a home—it should also emphasize the light. Make sure your property is well lit and use torch lamps if a room doesn’t get a lot of natural light. We also find that replacing LED bulbs with bulbs that give it a warmer feel has a beneficial effect on buyer interest.
6. Warm it up! Use blankets, pillows, rugs, and art to add warmth to a room. Plants and flowers can do the same thing and always bring a breath of life into a home.
Before Home Staging:
After Home Staging:
Source: YourHome1Source.com, America’s Resource on Homeownership®.
Now to get those professional photos for listing your home online right? Well, that’s where Homie comes into play. But who am I kidding?!
Homie isn’t just great for taking professional photos of your home and helping you list your home for sale, the real gold in using Homie is that they will save you those 6% fees you’d be handing over to your realtor for selling your house!
That’s right, Homie saves on home sellers on average, $10,000 by using Homie instead of a traditional realtor! Yep, you read that right, $10,000 ON AVERAGE!
It costs a mere $1500 to use Homie to sell your home. Simply pay the $199 upfront to get listed and then the $1299 balance (instead of the 6% you’d normally pay a realtor) when you close on your house! It’s that easy!
Homie has a team of agents and lawyers to help you through the process of selling your home too, so you’re never alone! You’ve got help 24/7, right at your fingertips! Homie not only saves you A TON of money on selling your home, but they also help you with the whole process of selling your house too!
Homie is also selling homes much faster than traditional brokers and getting sellers over 99% of their listing price in both Utah and Arizona currently! Homie is currently the #1 brokerage office in Utah and has already done over 4500 transactions! They also have HUGE customer satisfaction too! Just check out some of their reviews HERE to see just how much buyers and sellers have loved using Homie!
Buying your next home with Homie has tons of benefits too including being able to get one of the best rates possible on your home loan through Homie, closing much faster than traditional home loans (Homie is in the top 1% for speed of closing!), AND Homie will actually give you $5000 towards closing costs!
They also provide an agent to help you on your home search without the pressure to buy you often find with using a traditional realtor. You get everything with Homie that you would with a traditional agent!
Learn more about the whole process of both selling AND buying with Homie in my YouTube Video below:
Pretty amazing right?! Learn more about buying and selling your home with Homie, by checking out their website at http://www.Homie.com today!
Happy Home Selling!
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Where does staging furniture come from exactly?