Super Bowl Weekend marked the start of the Spring Buying Season in real estate. Anecdotally, real estate agents will tell you that buyer activity tends to tick higher at this time of the year.
Meanwhile, with mortgage rates still trolling near all-time lows and the roll out of the new first-time homebuyer tax credit, 2009 may bring out even more buyers than we've seen in the past.
Just having your home on the market may not be enough to attract an offer, though -- the home has to have appeal. That brings us to home staging -- the process by which a homeowner re-organizes and re-presents his home to appeal to as many potential buyers as possible.
Home staging is part-science, part-art, and part-psychology. Homebuyers tend to judge homes within the first 8 seconds of seeing them so making a quality first impression can mean the difference between getting multiple bids, and just getting a lot of foot traffic.
The 4-minute video gives some quick-and-easy tips, including:
Even though home inventories are falling, supplies are still higher than in previous years. Home sellers wanting to stand out in a crowd may want to consider staging their homes to help them sell more quickly.
Staged homes sell for as much as 17% more money and as much as 40% faster than non-staged ones.
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Thanks for helping to educate the public about the importance of home staging. The video link is wonderful!
I agree. Cleaning out the clutter, and making room in the closet are important. Thanks for the tips.
Remember that front curb appeal, too. If it's all cluttered and overgrown with weeds and unpruned bushes, shrubs, and trees, or surrounded by dead plants, etc., you won't even get half of them into the house.
I'm always happy to see how much we are educating the public about Home staging. Thanks for the post!
I agree that the faster the better when it comes to selling these days. Homes on the market for months only see a number of price reductions and declining values going on in the neighborhood. I still find that owners know very little about staging and anything to further inform them on the subject is great. Thanks for the post!