Friday, January 30, 2015
Are you listing your home this year? Better call a stager, says the National Association of REALTORS®. According to NAR’s 2015 Profile of Home Staging, REALTORS® believe that buyers offer between 1 and 5 percent more for a home that’s staged. That percentage, some Realtors® believe, can be up to 10 percent.Nearly half of surveyed REALTORS® who work with buyers believe staging usually has an effect on the buyer’s view of the home. Staging, they report, makes an impact by helping buyers visualize the property as a future home (81 percent), and by making buyers more willing to walk through a home they saw online (46 percent).
Just over a third of REALTORS® on the seller’s side (34 percent) utilize staging on all homes – the majority utilizes staging as a tool in at least some instances.
The median cost spent on staging a home is $675. Sixty-two percent of REALTORS® representing the seller offer home staging services to their clients, while 39 percent say the seller pays before listing the home. REALTORS® on both the buyer and seller sides agreed that the living room is the most important room to stage, followed by the kitchen, master bedroom, dining room and bathroom.
Source: NAR
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