What's the rationale for spending money on staging a property?

Sale prices usually increase, often by as much as five per cent.

Attention to the appearance of a home and highlighting it's best
features, is imperative.

In a 2007 Home Gain Survey of over 2000 realtors, it was discovered that sellers who spent on staging services for their home recovered over 343% of the cost in the sale of their home.

Attaining the goal of a quick and profitable sale frequently requires a professional outside eye. The biggest mistake of most homeowners is : clutter.



You have to think strategically. At Revamp Home Staging we walk into a house and identify its strongest, most marketable features, then figure out how to play them up, how to draw attention to the positives. You have to remove the hurdles to broad appeal, eliminate the visual distractions.


As part of that "editing" process, we work to remove much of an owner's personal imprint on a house.



There's a psychological process by which you remove the personal so that potential buyers can project their lives into the space. You don't want people to feel that it's someone else's home, you want them to just see it as an attractive space they could have.

In addition to removing personal items such as family photographs, fridge magnets and religious icons, stagers also tend to level with homeowners about the small things they've probably stopped noticing.



Someone who lives in a house is never really aware of their own smell and the smell of their pets. They also stop noticing dripping taps and burned-out light bulbs - which are the first things an outsider will notice and question.


It’s impossible to underscore how critical a positive emotional reaction is when selling a house.



Even before they walk through the house, check out the closet space, inspect the wiring, they have an immediate visceral reaction. In the absence of other information, senses like sight, smell and sound take over. That's what determines if they shut down or have the interest to move to the next, more practical stage of a the transaction.


Vacant properties, whether new or old, are often the toughest to sell. That's whywe at Revamp maintain two massive warehouses filled with furniture and accessories.
 Over 2.5 millions dollars worth.


The other key point is that empty spaces seem smaller. It's an issue of perspective because there's no context for the eye, no sense of relative proportion. Revamp currently has over 80 staged properties on it client list. Few people are able to imagine the size of a queen-size bed in a room - you have to show them.
 Furthermore, it's important to establish the feel of a certain lifestyle in a home that's being marketed.



When people are moving from a rental to a first home or they're moving up to a larger place, they need the illusion of bigger and better. The qualified professionals at Revamp Home Staging will assist in every way to enhance the process of selling a home in Vancouver and throughout the Lower Mainland.Visit Revamp at: www.revampconcepts.com