How Home Staging Boosts Property Value and Attracts Buyers

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When it’s time to sell your home, your Real Estate Agent may suggest staging your property. While it may seem intimidating, this practice has the potential to increase your chances for a successful sale. Let’s break down some tried and true home staging methods to help your property shine in person and in online listings.

Why Should You Stage Your Home?

A successful home staging should showcase a home’s best assets, impress prospective buyers, and help the home sell quickly for the highest possible price. In fact, 82% of buyers’ agents in a National Association of Realtors survey reported staging helped their clients better visualize the property as their future home in 2024.

What are Some Essential Staging Steps?

Cleaning

Cleaning your spaces makes everything look new. Ideally, you should clean and dust every area of your home from the floors to the ceilings. When potential buyers enter a clean property, it gives the impression that the home is well cared for and loved.

Decluttering

Clutter distracts visitors from your home’s features and can often make rooms feel smaller than they actually are. Decluttering is also a great opportunity to get rid of unused items before moving.

Store Away Personal Items

Depersonalizing your space goes hand in hand with decluttering. While personal effects can make your space feel homey in your day-to-day life, it’s harder for people to imagine what their life will be like when surrounded by your things. Personal items including toys, photographs, and other trinkets should all be stored out of sight while your home is staged.

Lighting

A well-lit space is inviting for visitors. Be sure to open all curtains and blinds to allow in as much natural light as possible. Even if your windows sufficiently let in the sun, experts recommend also turning on all of your home’s lights. If any of the fixtures are outdated or broken, replace them before prospective buyers arrive.

Furniture

Arranging your furniture for staging is all about finding a balance. You will want each room to feel spacious and relaxed while still being easy to navigate. As you stage, step back often to think about how the furniture makes you feel. If something is too big for a space, it can make a room feel small. Alternatively, not enough furniture in a room can make the room feel cold and impersonal.

Don’t Forget Outside

The outside of your property will be a prospective buyer’s first impression of the home. After doing so much work on the interior, it’s important to give the exterior the same treatment. The lawn should be well mowed and maintained, including reseeding any bare patches. Planting blooming flowers in window boxes or close to the front door are inviting and stand out. Don’t forget about exterior cleaning as well—be certain you power wash and clean the siding, exterior doors, and windows.

Your Success Takes the Stage

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