FAQs
What is Home Staging?
Home staging is a marketing tool used to prepare a home for the real estate market. It involves highlighting a homes natural beauty, square footage, amenities and possibilities that a home has to offer. It is minimizing flaws, and creating a non-taste specific palate that anyone can visulize living in.
Why is home staging important?
Most home sellers cannot view their home objectively. If you cannot see objectively, you cannot market your home effectively. Since only 10% of home buyers can visualize the potential of a home, this makes home staging critical! You do not want the advantages of your home overlooked and left up to the buyer’s imagination.
What current trends give evidence that home staging is my most effective marketing tool?
A 2009 Profile of Homebuyers & Sellers conducted by the National Association of Realtors says that 90% of all buyers use the internet in their search. 84% of buyers reported the photos to be the most useful information. The photos taken by your Inviting Home staging consultant will create desire within the potential home buyer and increase traffic. Staging is pure economics and visual merchandising. Improve upon a product and the demand, thus the price, increases.
Is home staging expensive?
Home staging is not expensive. In a 2009 Home Gain Survey of nearly 1000 Realtors, it was discovered that home staging typically provides a 586% return on investment. It will in most cases always cost less than your first price reduction.
What is Home Redesign?
Just as Home Staging is all about the potential home buyer, redesign is all about the home owner. Redesign focuses on the furnishings you currently own, and rearranging them to create a home that is warm and inviting.
