Why Stage?
According to the National Association of Realtors, Home Sellers who typically spend between 1-3% of the value of their home on staging and improvements will usually return (ROI) between 8-10% of their home value in sales price!
Top 3 reasons for a seller to stage (aka properly prepare) their house in a HOT MARKET!
3) Staging enables buyers to emotionally attach to a house. Which is more important than ever in a tense, multiple offers, low inventory, hot, seller’s market! That emotional attachment is what will drive buyers to do WHATEVER it takes to purchase their “HOME”
2) After the buyer has powered through the feeding frenzy and beat all the other offers with the highest bid, now the option period begins. But the properly prepared seller knows her buyer is in love, determined and fully committed so does not fear that crazy seller’s market disease of “buyers remorse.” With the help of her stager and realtor, the smart seller is already aware of or addressed common inspection issues that a buyer could use to negotiate from and done all in her power to maximize potential for best appraisal outcome.
1) Which results in the #1 reason to stage and properly prepare a house to sell in a hot market is MORE MONEY!!