Most people know the proverb “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. Well, unfortunately, it is the opposite when homeowners want to sell their home and want their treasures to be considered treasures. Everyone has a different style to decorate or store goods in their homes. When the buyers are walking through a home for sale, what do we want them to focus on? Your pictures of family or how their furniture would fit into the living room? Let’s look at the perspectives of others about staging a home before listing with a Realtor…
BUYERS’S AGENT SAID…
• 83% said staging a home made it easier for a buyer to visualize the property as their future home.
• 47% said home staging influenced most buyer’s view of the home.
• 44% said that it will positively impact home value up to 10% if the home is decorated to buyer’s taste.
• 23% said buyers will overlook the property’s faults.
• 7% said that it will negatively impact home value if the home is not decorated to buyer’s taste.
SELLERS’ AGENT SAID…
• 28% of Agents staged homes before selling regularly while 13% only staged difficult homes to sell.
• Most common rooms to be staged, 93% Living Rooms, 84% Kitchens, 78% Master Bedrooms, 72% Dining rooms.
• Most common home improvements: Decluttering the home (95%), Deep home cleaning (89%), Removing pets during showing (83%), Carpet Cleaning (78%), Professional Photos (73%)
National Association of Realtors® Research Group Profile of 2021 Home Staging Report (37pages) available upon request, Simply Contact Us.
