Asheville Home Staging

Home Staging Defined

It’s all about setting the scene. By choosing just the right furniture, rugs, artwork, and accessories, and bringing them together in thoughtful designs, home stagers create the conditions in which buyers can envision themselves living. Staging describes a house’s form and function better than any words in a real estate listing ever could. 

At Asheville Home Staging, we bring houses to life—to a buyer’s life, specifically. We make your house feel like their home so they’re ready to move in. Because that’s our goal: help you sell your house fast, and for the price you want… or more!

Why Does Real Estate Staging Matter?

It puts your home center stage in the listings. People can’t buy your house if they don’t see it. If it isn’t the star of the site, they won’t make an appointment for a showing. Empty homes don’t photograph well—and neither do crowded, cluttered spaces. Getting clicks when your house first hits the market is absolutely key to getting buyers in the door. And having a buyer see themself happily living in your house once they’ve stepped inside is vital to closing the deal.

Contrary to popular thought, empty spaces don’t look or feel larger. Home staging helps buyers imagine how their own furniture and decor can fit in your house. When seen with a sofa and chairs, a living room that may be small on square footage appears big in possibility—the perfect spot for family movie night or a gathering of friends. Put simply, staging highlights what’s great about each room in your home and the house as a whole.

Because let’s face it, no property is perfect. If your house is empty, all of its flaws, no matter how tiny, are on full display. But when it’s professionally and skillfully staged, buyers won’t see potential problems, only potential.

Home Staging Works: The Numbers Don’t Lie

We’ve experienced this scenario time and again: A home sits without selling—and sits and sits, sometimes for 60 days or more. An exasperated agent or seller finally contacts us, and… boom! It’s under contract in the blink of an eye.

On average in 2019, Western North Carolina homes staged by Asheville Home Staging went under contract in just 19 days—and so far in 2020, the average is even less! Typically, homes in the city of Asheville spend roughly 75 days on the market.

Nationwide, statistics show the same thing: Home staging helps you sell your house fast and with a higher price tag.

• Staged homes sell 73%-87% quicker than their non-staged counterparts, according to polls conducted by the Real Estate Staging Association and the National Association of Realtors.

• For every $100 invested in home staging, there’s a potential return of $400. Yes, it’s part of the upfront costs of selling a home, but with a potential ROI of 300%.

• Staged homes can bring in up to 20% more than those that are not staged.

• Buyers are 38% more willing to walk through a staged home they saw online vs. a non-staged home.

• 83% of buyers find it easier to visualize a property as their home when it is staged, while 23% are likely to overlook a staged property’s faults.

Set the stage for a sale: Whether you’re an Asheville or Western North Carolina real estate agent or builder, or are selling a house by owner, contact us today for your free home staging consultation!