Home staging

Home staging is the act of preparing a private residence for sale in the real estate marketplace. The goal of staging is to make a home appealing to the highest number of potential buyers, thereby selling a property more swiftly and for more money. Staging techniques focus on improving a property's appeal by transforming it into a welcoming, attractive product that anyone might want. People usually use arts, painting, accessories, lights, greenery and carpet to stage the home, to give potential buyers a more attractive first impression of the property. [1]


History

Sweden

In Sweden, professional home staging, known as homestyling, became popular after 2000. Professional home stagers claim homestyling yields around 10% higher pricing compared to just cleaning the home.

UK

In Britain, home staging is sometimes referred to as property presentation or property styling. The techniques have been televised by home stylist Ann Maurice in the show House Doctor on Five.

U.S.

Home staged for resale - family room, kitchen

U.S. research states that home staging can reduce a listing's time on the market by one third to half, and could fetch as much as 6% to 20% more than an empty home or a home not properly staged.[2]

Home staged for resale - nursery

Television shows

References

  1. ↑ Holmes, Tamara E.: "Home staging key to selling" Bankrate.com, Real Estate Guide 2010
  2. ↑ "Staged Homes Sell Faster for Higher Prices". nwi.com. Retrieved 6 September 2013.

External links

Wikibooks has more on the topic of: Home staging
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.