Home Staging When Selling Real Estate in Vancouver
No matter if the real estate market is hot or not, a home may need more than a vase of fresh flowers and a quick clean-up to attract the highest price with the best terms.
In fact, you might want to consider getting professional help and I can recommend a company to you. Home stagers are gaining popularity as homeowners embrace the concept of displaying their homes as a product for sale rather than hoping buyers will appreciate the homey, lived-in look of the place.
Home staging involves transforming new and lived-in spaces into show suites. It can be as simple as helping homeowners remove the clutter or repainting a garish bathroom, to renting furniture and artwork that shows the potential of a living space.
There are different levels of home staging available to sellers and you can choose depending on your budget. You can purchase a consultation for as low as a few hundred dollars and then do the work yourself, or you can have a company do all the furniture and art rentals and it can easily range up to the $5000 area.
A small fee really if you are talking about a property $300,000 or $400,000 and up, especially if it brings in an extra $20,000 on the selling price.
Even in a hot market, some homes sit on the market unsold for weeks. Even if you have small mortgage payment of only $2000, a slow sale could cost you thousands.
There is no formal research on the return on investment for home staging, but a 1999 survey by Coldwell Banker Realty in California found that staged homes sold for an average of five per cent more than unstaged homes -- and in half the time.
Call me at 604-831-0307 and we can discuss if home staging is a good solution for selling your property for the best price and the best terms.