Homeowners and especially real estate agents and brokers now understand the need to professionally stage a home for sale. Whether staging an occupied home or a vacant home due to foreclosure or relocation, home staging has become the ultimate and best-kept tactic to insuring a successful sale.
Staging a home for lease or sale can be a very daunting and costly proposition. The expense to hire a home staging professional plus the expense to rent home staging furniture, artwork, and furnishings for months or perhaps weeks on end can put a tough burden on the homeowner's minds.
What is the answer? The new advancement of “Virtual Staging” is making real-estate agents and homeowners alike take notice. So what is virtual staging? Virtual Home Staging is process to stage a home or rooms with the use of room photos and a fantastic technique that inserts furniture, artwork, and furnishings into an empty room, interior space or perhaps outdoor environment.
What are the advantages? To start with, the expense to the homeowner for staging a home can range from $2,000 to $20,000 dollars. Virtual staging can be 10% of the cost of traditional home staging. The time and expense required to stag a home is virtually reduced to almost zero. And finally, studies of Internet shopping and research show that between 87% and 93% of all online sales involved some kind of Internet research!
Virtual Staging is far more flexible with a “at your fingertips” wider variety of staged properties. The homeowner can virtually stage a room with traditional, country, or even southwestern motif and pick which one looks best.
Perhaps the best advantage is the ability to show off the virtually staged home on a website, your real estate brokers website, and distribute the staged photos throughout the world of the Internet. You can even have the virtual photos printed or use them in printed materials like open house handouts and more.
One caution however, please be very careful to only use a professional virtually staged company. Many of the so-called online virtual staging company's are more or less technology gurus with little or no real experience with home staging. The result of selecting one of these online technology based firms would be the equivalent of using a moving company to stage your home. We doubt the end result would be acceptable. Always ask what their real experience and knowledge of home staging is.
