Are you thinking of selling your home? If so, you might want to consider staging it before putting it on the market. Staging is the process of arranging furniture, decor, and accessories in a way that showcases the best features of your home and appeals to potential buyers.
Here are some benefits of staging your home for sale:
Helps Your Listing to Stand Out Online
With so much competition, your home can easily get lost in the sea of listings across the web. Staging can make your home look more appealing and inviting in the photos.
Makes Your Home Feel Aspirational
It’s important that the home shopper falls in love with the property they ultimately choose to buy. Staging can create a positive emotional connection by showing how the space can be used and decorated.
Shows Ways to Use Extra Rooms and Funky Floor Plans
Staging can also help overcome potential objections or challenges that buyers may have with your home’s layout or features. For example, you can stage an awkward corner as a cozy reading nook, or a spare bedroom as a home office.
Increases the Selling Price
Staging can get your home sold faster, too. According to HomeAdvisor, homes that have been staged spend between 33% and 50% less time on the market than non-staged homes. That not only means getting the proceeds of a home sale faster, but also spending less money on added expenses such as a rental or storage unit while you wait for the sale to happen.
A recent survey from the International Association of Home Staging Professionals shows that staging helps sell homes three to 30 times faster than the nonstaged competition. Further, staging can help increase the sale price by up to 20% on average.
Staging Prioritizes Key Spaces
According to a recent NAR report, when it comes to the importance of staging, not all rooms in a house are considered equal. While 47% of buyers’ agents note that seeing a staged living room is important to their clients, just 19% buyers’ agents say the same for bathrooms and 8% for guest bedrooms.
Staging can help you focus on the rooms that matter most to buyers and make them more memorable.