All the World’s a Stage – Including Your Living Room

With the recent tightening in the residential real estate market, we’ve started receiving numerous calls from around the country inquiring about Home Staging. Home staging, is an emerging practice among home sellers at every price level.

Home Staging is in practical terms, putting your home’s best foot forward. It’s optimizing your home’s appeal and it has real payoffs. It’s been stated that Home Staging can maximize the selling price by as much as 10% while minimizing the time the home is on the market by weeks and months.

Who doesn’t want to sell their home for as much as possible and in as little time as possible? All of our White Space ™ clients, for sure.

Until recently we had only staged homes from clients who came to us originally for other reasons; file systems, storage and closet organization, or general de-cluttering of their homes. We had staged perhaps a dozen homes. We’ve had 50 or more inquiries in recent weeks for our services in this area.

We just completed three stagings and the clients’ reactions were similar. Our client, Andy, said his home felt sterile to him. And Linda said she felt as though she was living in a hotel. Mission Accomplished!!!

That’s a good gauge as to our success in creating a home that potential buyers could see as their home. As of this blogging, Andy’s home has sold and Linda has had much more activity in viewings and interest. She may even be in contract by now.

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