Home Staging and Preparing A House For Sale
1. What is home staging?
2. What are the benefits of home staging?
3. Who can benefit from home staging?
4. How much does home staging cost?
5. Can’t I just stage my own home and save some money?
6. Surely buyers can look past my stuff?
7. I think my home is fine the way it is, are you going to come in and tell me I have bad taste?
8. I don’t need a home stager, all homes sell eventually…right??
1. What is home staging?
Home staging is about redefining space in a property and ensuring your home presents well to the greatest number of potential buyers in the market.
A Home 2 Show uses existing furnishings and accessories (where possible) and arranges them to accentuate the good points of the property and is therefore cost effective and quick to implement.
The existing contents of the home are considered and everything unnecessary, overtly personal or extreme is suggested to be packed away for you to enjoy in your next home. Buyers need to see the shell of the house as clearly as possible so that they can imagine themselves and their own possessions fitting into the home. You only get one chance to make a good first impression when selling your home or property so make the first impression count.
2. What are the benefits of home staging?
The benefits of home staging include:
- Regardless of the current market situation, it is shown time and time again that a well presented property will sell for the best market price and often in less time than other competing properties on the market.
- Buyers will always favor a house which requires less work.
- Reduces the buyer’s power for negotiation on sale price.
- Increases potential for a quicker and more profitable sale for the seller.
- Offers sellers greater selling potential through a better presented property for open days/inspections.
3. Who can benefit from home staging?
- Those in the market who are currently selling or planning to sell a home or property.
- Those wanting a makeover in their own home.
- Real estate agents wanting to value add their existing service.
- Landlords wanting to increase the rental value of their property.
- Developers wishing to have their properties stylishly presented for mass market appeal.
4. How much does home staging cost?
Home staging is service offered to home sellers to capitalize on their biggest asset – their home. While some look at it as an unnecessary cost when selling, many look at it as an investment in the sale of their home, both in time on the market and dollar return.
The goal of a home stager is not to cost you money; it is to make you money through better presentation which increases the demand and selling price for your home.
A Home 2 Show is the only professional home staging service in this area that offers home owners like you “Guided Home Staging” services that can save you money over “Fully Managed Home Staging”.
All properties vary, but a basic package for an average three bedroom property starts at only $175.00
Smart Realtors often cover the cost for home staging services for their clients. And why not, a staged house will sell faster and for more money. Be sure to ask your realtor if they cover these costs or will split the costs with you.
5. Can’t I just stage my own home and save some money?
You can prepare your own home for sale but you cannot objectively stage your home as you have too much tied up in the property emotionally.
Home sellers attempting to home stage simply don’t see the flaws because they have lived with them for some time and can’t see past them. A home stager will see these things and correct them so the potential buyer only sees the features and walks away in love with the home.
The benefit of having no emotional involvement in your home allows a thorough and honest assessment of your property’s strengths and weaknesses to prepare it for sale and maximize buyer appeal.
6. Surely buyers can look past my stuff?
People are very visual, if they see something in your home they don’t like or cannot relate to then they don’t identify with your home.
Reducing to a minimum is key so that buyers can see space, see storage and see themselves living in your property is vitally important.
7. I think my home is fine the way it is, are you going to come in and tell me I have bad taste?
No, we wouldn’t dream of doing that. What we will do is offer creative suggestions on how you can best utilize what you have in the home to improve the look and feel to prospective buyers.
Buyers will look at your property and know if they like it or not in mere seconds. These few vital seconds are all you have to convince a buyer that this is the right home for them. De-cluttering and providing clear definition of the intention of every room in the house is vital to selling success.
8. I don’t need a home stager, all homes sell eventually…right?
Sure, but at what cost to you? A home sitting on the market for sale is costing you money. You may have purchased your new home and be paying two mortgages. You will have to continue to pay rates, electricity and water for a property you want to get out of.
That is before the agent suggests a price drop is a good idea as your home has been sitting there that long. An average price drop is $10,000.. Ouch!