Luxury Staging for Your Home - An Attractive Financial Proposition

Smart Sellers understand that Professional Home Staging is a powerful marketing tool that, when used correctly, has tremendous FINANCIAL benefits associated with it regardless of what the market looks like. Why? Because luxury staging will help a home photograph well, show well, and enable the buyers to linger. Basically a well-staged home will attract and entice more buyers to set up an appointment and come see it. The more appointments, traffic, and interest your for-sale house generates, the more likely you are to sell it at asking price if not above asking price.

As spring rolled in a few good things happened in real estate in Dallas; home prices started to go up by 6% and up to 8% - some even say - and the big talk in the local media is that “it’ a seller’s market we are in”. Yippee!

Although I am optimistic and inspired by the current trends in real estate I also think that –as sellers- it behooves us to be realistic about those trends.

And the reality is this:

Day after day, I have driven by homes with 'For Sale" signs in front of yards for months. I am sure a lot of you share similar sentiments.

Why are not All Homes Selling Fast and for the absolute best price? After all it’s a seller’s market and the seller calls all the shots. Not necessarily so, and not so fast!

Regardless of what the market is, buyers are smart and they will always look for the best product, in its best condition, that meets their needs (and wants) and that is offered for dollars they are not just willing to part with but even pay more.

So as you contemplate putting your house on the market– as a seller – you need to be asking yourself these two questions because at the end of the day, you won’t have a sale unless you have a buyer.

a-) what does the buyer in my area want;

b-) can I deliver on what the buyer wants so my for-sale house outshines the competition in my neighborhood, and so that I get top dollar from the sale of my house?

At the risk of sounding materialistic, I am going to say this: yes, it’s true it’s all about the mighty dollar! But it’s a lot deeper than that. Why would you want to be part of a financial transaction and leave money on the table?

Merely by not merchandising and packaging your home so that it appeals to the target buyer (aka not luxury staging it for sale) you are doing just that - you are leaving money on the table.

The good news is, you don’t have to leave money on the table if you play your cards right. So yes, it’s sort of a game a little bit, but it’s a fun game with great financial return. Part of the game is to be strategic about the sale of your home. That strategy should involve engaging the expertise knowledge and resources of a professional home stager.

Yes it is a seller’s market and yes homes are selling fast, but not all of them, and most assuredly NOT for Top Dollar. It would be naïve to make the assumption that ALL homes are selling fast.

These are my thoughts, what’s yours?

Cheers,

Keti