Home Staging by a professional home stager prior to placing your home on the market is a tool that provides multiple home selling advantages. Having been a Realtor® for many years, and now a professional home stager, I have witnessed both the financial and emotional advantages home staging provides to home sellers over, and over again. First, the wallet's where the house is! it's important to look at your current market statistics with your Realtor®. The numbers can be quite startling! For instance, in Fayette County, Georgia there are approximately 27,000 owner-occupied houses. Data taken from the Georgia MLS shows that Fayette County's average home sells for $321,811.00 and the current market statistics are as follows:
1,526 houses are currently on the market 117 days are the average number of days those homes have sat on the market. That tells you, if you are a Fayette County resident wanting to sell, that you have a strong competitive challenge ahead of you. But here's some more data regarding Fayette County that really speaks to the competitiveness of today's market.
726 listings YTD have been on the market that have expired without selling
178 days are the average number of market days prior to the listing expiring
It's safe to assume that many of the above expired listings have been re-listed and are now included in the 1,526 listings currently on the market. So, taking into account these statistics, balanced with your desire or need to sell, it becomes essential to take advantage of every competitive resource available. One must consider the importance of not only the time frame of achieving the desired sale, but also the desire of obtaining a fair market price for the property being offered for sale.
Secondly, home is where the heart is. Selling your home is almost always a very emotional and stressful process. Sure, our money and our investments are very important to us. But selling your home has an emotional aspect, as well.
Remembering that you are selling an asset, a building of which you have ownership, can become an emotional jumble because a home is also the foundation in which our domestic affections are centered. It's the memories that the walls hold. It's the photographs in every room that identify our very being and our shared times of celebrations. It's the trinkets on the shelves that our children so proudly labored over in art class or scouts.
Our home is a personal reflection of who we are, where we've been, and how we've lived. So, it's not always just about the money, which is somewhat ironic. For most of us, when we sell our home, we are selling our largest financial asset.
Taking both of these realistic aspects of home selling into consideration, the financial gain and the emotional ties associated with the home, exploit the benefits of professional home staging prior to listing your house for sale.
Professional home staging will:
Provide you with the ability to depersonalize your house correctly and pack up memorabilia safely for future display in the place you will soon be calling home.
Guide you through the process of reorganizing and redesigning the house to eliminate personal tastes and prominently display the home's most appealing traits.
Grant you the ability to showcase your property thus appealing to the most potential home buyers with the distinction required in today's competitive market.
True is the saying . . . "home is where the heart is"
But keep in mind . . . "the wallet's where the house is"
