Staged 2 Perfection

GOOD NEWS! The market is picking up in our area this summer! Homes are selling, buyers are buying and home values and pricing are remaining stable. There is still one problem that remains and that is that it is STILL a buyer’s market.

Because it is still a buyer’s market, this is why professional staging is SO VITAL! You have to have the upper-hand in the market. Your listing has to stand out above the competition and make a lasting impression. Staging provides not only room definition, a beautiful decorated space, and impressionable pictures for the MLS but it gives that emotional connection that is needed for the buyer to fall in love with the house which is what is needed to close the sale!

Check out the statistics from the leading staging association in the country, RESA! They conducted their own study and below are the results.

RESA’S STAGING STATISTICS

Professional staging has proven itself very successful! Here are some of the success stories that Staged 2 Perfection has provided over the last year.

*

The NO Wall & NO Bedroom Home

3134 W. 34th Street
Davenport, IA

A unique and one-of-a-kind floor plan that was targeted to a very specific market! Typical home builders won’t do that because they limit their prospective buyers. This was targeted to young professionals, possibly a single mom or dad or a parent with their kids every-other-weekend. It has a very open floor plan that may have had potential buyers stumped as to how to set up their furniture and what spaces were for what rooms. That is where I can in. I staged it, defining each space of the home and gave it a livable, inviting and cozy atmosphere needed to sell this home quickly. It sold in 19 DAYS!!!!

The UnSellable

4227 E 59th Street
Davenport, IA

This condo was listed first in April of 2010 at $399,900. It sat for over a year. The agent then called me it and we staged the home in August of 2011 and it sold in 68 days!!! By the time that it was staged, they had dropped the price almost $50,000. Can you imagine how much money they would have saved had it been staged to begin with!? Remember, vacant home sit on the market for an average of 277 days, but staged homes sell on average in as little as 40 days!

THE GREEN HOUSE

3498 Field Sike Drive
Bettendorf, IA 52722

This home was staged for the Parade of Homes on September 10, 2010 in an attempts to get it sold! It had been on the market for almost a year before it was staged with no success of selling it. After it was staged, an offer was made in less than 60 days and it was sold! Professional staging made all the difference!

*

JP CONDON INC FALL 2010 PARADE HOME

This home was also staged for the Parade of Home in the fall of 2010. It was on the market FOR ONLY 38 days until it was under contract! HUGE success!

*

SOLD IN LESS THAN 3 WEEKS AFTER STAGING

This house was on the market as an occupied listing for some time and it was then vacant for around 30 days.  The listing price as $389,900. It was then staged and was under contract in less than 3 weeks! AMAZING RESULTS!!

*

SOLD IN 12 DAYS

This house went straight on the market staged and beautiful at $119,900 on the 8th of July. Only 12 days after it was listed it received TWO offers on the same day. One was accepted and was then under contract! Could not have asked for better results! (My apologies for the quality of the pic, new one coming soon!)

*

SOLD QUICKLY OVER THE DEAD OF WINTER!!!!

This house was listed during very slow moving market towards the end of October of last year, but even during this extremely slow season, it was under contract in January! JANUARY! So much for real estate not moving in the dead of winter….it moves if it’s staged!!!

*

SAT & SAT…..THEN STAGED AND SOLD IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS

This home sat on the market for three months with not only any offers, but almost no showings! We staged in using what the homeowner already had and relisted it. It was priced at $79,800. After staging, the house SOLD IN TWELVE DAYS  for only $1800 less than the asking price!