Home staging prepares properties for sale by furnishing and decorating them to appeal to buyers, helping properties sell faster and often for higher prices, in exchange for staging fees (typically furniture rental plus design and labor).
Log in to followWe run a small service crew and I've been pricing out adding staging as a second line, mostly for two flippers we already do work for. Called our broker to ask what would change o…
Getting quotes for a friend's listing and the spread is wide. One stager said $3,900 for a vacant three bed, two bath, about 1,700 square feet, covering the main living room, dini…
Trying to understand staging as something to put money into rather than something to buy, and the whole thing seems to live or die on inventory turns. Here's the model I built and…
Working through whether staging earns its keep on a resale and the arithmetic feels too easy, which usually means I've left something out. List price $415,000. Stager quoted $3,50…
An agent sent me a stager's agreement to look at for a house a family member is selling, and I ended up reading the whole thing twice because the fee structure is stranger than I…
A seller I know was told her house needed staging, and what the agent actually did was tell her to box up half her family photos and move a bookcase to the garage. No furniture ar…
I've been going back and forth on which side of this business to try, and staging keeps coming up because it looks like the cheapest thing to start. Two stagers in my area adverti…
An inherited house is going on the market and the listing agent has used three phrases in two conversations. She said the place needs staging, then said we could do soft staging t…