Daily Real Estate News | May 8, 2008 |
8 Tips for Low Cost Staging
In a tough sales market, staging can help move a property.
Barb Schwarz, who claims to have invented home staging in the early 1970s, estimates that about one in four homes nationwide are now staged.
Julie Dana and Marcia Layton Turn state in their book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell, that a seller stands to gain as much as $9,000 on a $200,000 house if it's staged.
Shelly Wagner, a Detroit-based stager, estimates that the cost per room for staging is $100 – small potatoes if it really helps a home sell.
Here are some ideas from Wagner for effective, low-cost staging:
Source: Detroit News, Marge Colborn (05/03/08)
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