Benefits of Home Staging
When it comes time to sell your home, there are often so many aspects to consider but one of the most important is how you will present your property for sale. After all, you need to be attracting the right kind of buyers to your home in order to get the right price!
You might have heard of the concept of home staging before and are considering whether this is the right move for you and your property. Well, there really are so many benefits to home staging (if we don’t way so ourselves!) and it is suitable for such a huge range of homeowners. Whether you have already moved into your new home and your old property is now vacant, or perhaps you think your furniture and style is not doing your home justice, then home staging is the solution for you. Here are our top three advantages to home staging;
Home staging ensures you sell your home for more.
The concept of home staging involves a real estate stylist putting a considered and strategic spin on your property in an attempt to evoke an emotional response from potential buyers.
This basically means home staging ensures your home looks attractive, increasing the effectiveness of it’s marketing campaign by appealing to the masses of buyers. If multiple people are interested in your home, so begins a bidding war! This is a HUGE benefit of home staging.
Once a buyer builds an emotional connection with your home, they’ll be more likely to offer over and above the asking price to make sure they get it. Whilst the correlation between staging and final selling price is never promised, more often than not, our clients see a huge difference between the initial offer and final sale price. This shows how staged homes create buyer interest, resulting in higher offers which is what we are all about - show us the money, people!
Home staging helps you sell your home faster.
Next up on our list of home staging benefits is selling your property faster. A well-staged home attracts more potential buyers to your property’s listing online and in-person at home opens. Staged homes also allow buyers to better visualise themselves in the space which means they’re happy to overlook minor issues because they’ve already fallen head-over-heels for your home. These factors combine to result in increased competition and urgency between buyers.
Interested buyers need to act fast if they want to secure the property, especially in our current Perth market conditions where properties are practically flying out the door! The faster your home sells, the sooner you get your money and the less you are outlaying on mortgage repayments and utility bills for the property.
Over our years in the industry, we have had many homeowners contact us after their homes have been up for sale for months with zero interest and after they’ve been professionally staged by our team and re-marketed with their agent, their properties have sold in a matter of days! It’s incredible the power of engaged buyers.
Home staging helps showcase your property to its full potential.
Our final benefit of home staging is the ability to position a property in its best light. You might be thinking, what does that even mean?! Well, home staging isn’t necessarily practical, it’s exactly as it sounds, staging!
As professionals in the home staging industry, we strategically manipulate the floor plan of a property to showcase its main features, drawing potential buyers’ attention to all the right places. Not only does this highlight the important parts of the home, but it also gives buyers a better idea of how the home could look when they move in.
So, how exactly do we do this? A good stager will be able to walk through a property and create a flow that is beneficial to most potential home buyers. As professionals, we are super experienced and know how to really get the best out of every room. Should your home be a little on the small side, we will stage your home in a way to show openness by creating thoroughfares and removing clutter from spaces. We give every room of your property a clear purpose, taking all the guesswork out of it for the buyer. Once they can see how the space should be used, they’re less likely to get hung up on a strange layout or a poorly placed electrical output, which increases their chance of buying the place.
All in all, there are so many benefits of home staging, it’s just a matter of weighing up whether staging is the right solution to your property presentation needs. As always, get in contact with a member of our friendly team if you have any questions relating to your property, we’d be more than happy to help!