The Importance of Staging Your Home

If you want to get the upper hand in the real estate market, then consider staging your home to showcase its’ best assets and impress your prospective buyers.

Not all sellers stage their home, in fact, many of them haven’t even heard of the process of doing so. In the competitive real estate market, you’re going to want to scratch and claw your way to the top so you can get the most value out of your beloved property and avoid it from lingering for a period of time.

Staging is completely optional. You don’t have to go about this process, but consider this: you’re dealing with such a significant transaction, do you really want to be lazy and cheap about it?

While staging your home won’t reap lucrative rewards and increase your home’s value tenfold, it’ll definitely help your home get taken off the market a lot quicker than without it. This is because professional stagers create what the potential buyer wants to see. A look of comfort and ease is what they’re trying to go for, and by showcasing that to the buyer, they’ll be more reluctant to take it off of your hands.

Professional stagers aren’t relatively expensive and can turn your home completely around in a matter of hours. Again, staging is completely optional, but in reality it shouldn’t be. A simple rearrangement and facelift could be the deciding factor in how much you sell your home for and how long it takes for it to get off the market.

Bio: Kuba Jewgieniew is the head of Realty ONE Group, a real estate brokerage firm that has nearly 6,500 associates and was named one of the fastest growing companies in the nation by Inc. 500.