The Benefits of Staging Your Home
They say first impressions are everything. When it comes to your home, this could not be more true. Beautiful homes get overlooked all the time due to poor staging - be that bad photos, or a cluttered, busy environment when buyers are viewing. Even if the photos aren’t great, but the features are too good to be true, when they enter the space and it’s not quite how they imagined, will they be able to separate their feelings from the facts? That’s why staging is so critical.
Staging ensures that your personal taste and life do not interfere with potential buyers’ hopes and imagination of your home. Proper staging creates an almost blank slate that emphasizes the best qualities of a home so that when a potential buyer comes to visit, they’re able to explore and envision themselves there. The benefits of a well-staged home are not intangible or hypothetical though. Although the benefits to your viewers are to see the best in a beautiful home and the potential for it, the benefits of your sale are very much real. Here are three big benefits that will make staging well worth it for any home sale.
Better Photos
When considering which homes to visit, a buyer takes a lot into consideration, and if the photos don’t match the story of the price and features in the description, they’re not going to be sold. Especially in a post-COVID environment, people are going to be extra picky about the homes they visit, and that all starts with the photos.
Forget imagining themselves in the space - if your giant 5-piece couch is cluttering the living room, that square footage you listed doesn’t look like much anymore. Buyers need clear, easy to absorb visual information so that they can sort in their minds what stays, what goes, and what they would like to see when they get their hands on it. They need to see what all that square footage can mean for their lifestyle.
A well-staged home photographs beautifully. Beautiful photographs stand out in a sea of typical listings. By getting professional photos of your tastefully staged home, you make the decision to come to view your home that much easier for buyers. Your listing will get more responses, more qualified leads, and more competition from buyers. This all means a faster sale.
Faster Sale
By increasing your viewings, and by making your home’s best features stand out, people will love what they see and be itching to pull the trigger. From stand out photos to breathtaking dens, a staged home is a home that’s ready to sell. The experience of visiting a house and seeing all the areas in a clean, orderly, and optimal layout makes your home feel larger, inviting and creative.
When you have people clawing over your unforgettable photos and standout spaces, you get buyers putting in offers so as to not let this once in a lifetime opportunity slip away. Home viewings become events, and you get shared all over social media - friends, finding can’t-miss homes for their friends. And what happens when everyone is trying to buy the same beautiful home?
Higher sell Price
Home’s sell on their value. And when a home is in demand, looks beautiful, and is getting a lot of attention… it’s highly valuable. A well-staged home feels bigger, feels more beautiful, and opens the door to so many more potential buyers. Clients will imagine themselves there, and the more their imagination runs, the more at home is worth to them. The value in their mind increases. Get everyone feeling this way, and the competition for your home will dictate the selling price.
A well-staged home photographs beautifully. Beautiful photographs stand out in a sea of typical listings. By getting professional photos of your tastefully staged home, you make the decision to come to view your home that much easier for buyers. Your listing will get more responses, more qualified leads, and more competition from buyers. This all means a faster sale.