When it comes to rooms that are often forgotten in home staging, the laundry room often makes the list. After all, it’s a laundry room. How good can it get?
As I’ve mentioned in my posts about staging the garage and the basement, it’s important to remember that home staging… Read More →
Certain areas of a home are more likely than others to be forgotten when it comes to staging a property to sell. However these spaces, which seem unimportant to some homeowners (or even some home stagers), might actually rank higher than expected on a prospective buyer’s house wish… Read More →
You know that kitchens and bathrooms sell houses, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore other parts of a house when it comes to staging it to sell.
In a series of blog posts, I’ll outline the five most neglected parts of a property when it comes to staging, and how you can stage them… Read More →
Everyone said I was crazy when I quit my high-level job and started my first business, a marketing consulting firm, in the fall of 1989-just at the start of the 1990s recession. I knew that with change comes opportunity and that there is much less security in working for others than in working… Read More →
In a slow real estate market like this, it’s not unusual to see several houses for sale on the same street. Desperate home sellers are scrambling for ways to make their homes stand out from the competition. By decorating a home to be more appealing to buyers, home stagers offer the perfect solution.… Read More →
Home staging helps home sellers move faster. This is especially important when people are forced to relocate because of a new job.
No one wants to have to move before they’ve sold their home, and since home staging has been shown to reduce the average number of days on the market, this… Read More →
In a hot real estate market, buyers usually have to present unconditional offers in order to get the properties they want. But a slower real estate market means that it’s not uncommon for sellers to get offers that are conditional on the sale of the buyer’s current home.
When … Read More →
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this is actually a very good market for first-time and trade-up homebuyers because interest rates and prices are low. According to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), there were 4.9 million homes sold in the U.S. in 2008, and the projection… Read More →
According to the Canadian Real Estate Association’s (CREA) chief economist, Gregory Klump, “Increasingly cautious home buyers and mortgage lenders means that active listings will take longer to sell in 2009 compared to previous years.”
Klump adds, “The … Read More →
Part of the reason for the current foreclosure situation is that people were buying homes they just couldn’t afford. This was due in no small part to the fact that home prices were increasing at unprecedented rates, and salaries could in no way keep up with these inflated prices.
If … Read More →
