We recently listed a vacant property with the hopes that a strong sellers market would make the need for staging less of an issue. After a few weeks and many showings, we changed our tune and decided to add a few pieces of furniture to the main spaces to bring in some emotional appeal and give people ideas on how to use the space. The nice thing was we were able to use a few spare pieces that both us and the seller had available to do the staging, so the cost was minimal. We hired a professional photographer to take new photos, did a small price reduction to give it a marketing boost and voilà, it sold within a week!

Truly we knew better. We’ve had customers come our way after their agent listed their vacant home and not selling it. We were fortunate the homeowner reached out to us and of course, we said staging would go a long way, and it did! Staging a home can be a very broad term. Most often staging means we’ll help our clients depersonalize their already furnished home. We’ll ask our clients to remove personal photos, remove the desk from the main living space or move the furniture to better accentuate the room from a buyers point of view when simply walking into the room. More importantly, a home should have just enough décor for a potential buyer to see the space in a small photo on their phone so they ultimately book a showing! It’s not brain surgery, it’s just small tweaks that go along way.