#2 Buyers are Buying Your House Online – Is it Red-Carpet Ready?

Home Staging Tips and Suggestions by Melinda Potcher

http://MAPConsultants.houzz.com

In today’s real estate market, while we are seeing home prices slowly inching up, there are also additional expectations for your property, and those expectations include you and your home putting out your best and being prepared for the red carpet of Multiple Listing Service.

Even after meeting with a local professional home stager (Like Me) and your Realtor, you also need to make sure that the photographs being taken for marketing your property are done by a professional photographer and accentuate the positive aspects of the exterior and interior of your real estate investment.

According to NAR (The National Association of Realtors) Millenial Buyers

want very specific things in a home they are considering to purchase, including;

• ·         Updates in Kitchens and Bathrooms
• ·         Well Maintained Homes (no unfinished projects)
• ·         Technology (for work at home and entertainment)
• ·         And Functionality

When you first start thinking about putting your home up for sale, and for whatever your reasons, please take these items into consideration and sit down for a conversation with your Realtor and Professional Home Stager to prioritize these items as part of the marketing plan for your house.

There are quick and easy updates you can make to kitchens and bathrooms without completely gutting these rooms and remodeling them.  Think lighting, trendy tile backsplashes, updated cabinet hardware and hinges and well maintained or new flooring.

Unfinished projects you may think are minor like replacing broken or dirty switch plates, repainting wood trim around doorways and garages, or even re-caulking or re-grouting tubs and tiles may add up to something major in the minds of first time home buyers who may lack the time and finances to take on to-do lists after purchasing a house. 

Staging one of the bedrooms in your house as a home office (and/or having a dedicated home office) may be a very attractive feature to a millennial buyer who wants the option of working from home. 

Open concept floor plans are another highly sought after feature by today’s potential purchasers – if your home is full of your “stuff” it will be more difficult for buyers to see the flow, which is why it is so important to at least have a home staging consultation by a reputable and professional home stager (LIKE ME) prior to putting the house on the market for sale.

For more demographics on today’s home buyers, please visit; http://www.realtor.org/research-and-statistics