You’ve spent a lot of time and money on home interior design. Designers would be proud of your home, its color palette and decor, but now that you’re selling, you have to communicate that value to buyers.
Right here in your home sale timeline is where you need to look into staging your home — or, the process of organizing your home to showcase its best assets to buyers. Here’s why staging might just be your most successful sales tactic.
Staging involves you bringing your home interior design skills into the light and highlighting the best of what’s already there. It also helps you sell your home faster — or so says 82% of all buyers’ agents surveyed, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors.
When you stage a home for sale, you accentuate your home’s interior design, all while making the space ready for someone to move in — something you might call “depersonalizing.” Staging also puts you on the lookout for quick repairs you can do, so your buyers don’t have to worry about holes in their new drywall, or outlets that don’t work. It’s the little things that make your home interior shine, and your listing just a little more tempting to buyers.
Good staging helps buyers imagine themselves living in your home, rather than simply inhabiting it. Maybe they see plants thriving in your sunniest window, or they envision summer days carelessly adrift in your pool. Whatever their fantasy, there’s some weight behind staging. The Real Estate Staging Association says that it creates an emotional connection with the buyer, making their already monumental purchase just that much more monumental.
According to another report from the National Association of Realtors, 47% of realtors surveyed said that staging affected most buyer’s impressions of a home. It makes homes feel well-maintained and beautiful — a distinct competitive advantage. No buyer wants to walk into an ugly home that’s falling apart.
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