Why Staging Your Home Matters
Research indicate buyers take less than 30 seconds to make up their mind about a property. First impression is everything and how a home looks like can entice them into discovering more about it.
Staging is a wonderful way of making sure a property buyer is impressed from the first instance. It has everything to do with presenting it in the best light possible. In a study, 39 percent of agents indicated that home staging decreased the time a home was on the market and increased the property value by 6-20%. The first impression might be the only impression that matters when putting your property up for sale and highly important.
Staging matters in diverse ways.
It declutters and gives an impression of cleanliness
Cleanliness is everything and an organised, superbly staged home gives that impression right away. Preparing a property for sale includes lots of activities, from cleaning the entire home as well as specific sections as blinds, windows, cobwebs, baseboards, ceiling fans among others. You’ve done all these and more and you need to let the buyer know without actually saying a word. Organizing your home in the most beautiful, rich and functional way tells the potential buyers what they see is what they get.
More money and faster sell
According to Home Staging Association of UK, staging a home can make you more money and it’ll sell much faster. Staged homes compared to those not staged will spend a very short time on the market on average. Apart from selling for more money, you’re assured of getting back your staging expenses. The average cost of staging a home is 1-3% of the asking price, but the return on investment generated range between 8% and 10%. On average, staged homes have been found to sell 8 per cent above the average asking price.
Professional videos and photos standout anywhere
Whether on magazine covers or online in a property website, a staged home will always stand out than others. Over 90 per cent of home buyers today search the internet first. Typically, buyers only take a few seconds on a photo and more time on great, striking and captivating photos. Staged homes are well designed, richly organised and captured well on photos and videos. Buyers will take sufficient time on them influencing their decision right away.
Helps buyers visualise better
While selling a home you want the buyer to fully immerse themselves on the property and visualise it as their future home. Staging helps the mind towards this end. Making a home look great from the exterior to the interior, porch to the roof can transform a bored home viewer into an enticed, motivated and animated home buyer. It helps the viewer have an opinion about the property within the shortest time possible of seeing it.
Move-in ready house
Targeting move-in ready house buyers? Stage your home. A significant number of home shoppers are after a home they can move into right away and enjoy its facilities immediately. Buyers are always ready to purchase a home that’s ready to move in. Staging makes the home ready in their eyes and helps them visualize themselves already living in the property.