RECENT BLOG POSTS
Home sellers and real estate agents take note! If this can happen in New Hampshire it can happen here in Fresno as well. In fact it does, but not often enough. A Home Staging Consultation is the best marketing tool you have. It is very affordable if the recommendations are followed by the homeown...
05/15/2012
This is a great example of how even elegant professionally decorated homes can benefit from staging prior to going on the market. No matter how expensive the decor is it will turn off buyers if it is too taste specific. The colors and furnishings that the homeowners love may be in fact the very t...
05/06/2012
This is a great post! Read and heed all you out there thinking about selling your homes! Home stagers and real estate agents have been saying these same things for years. Staging a home is marketing it to the widest buyer pool possible. It's not about the seller's comfort and taste. My home woul...
04/16/2012
Yesterday I wrote a post about a staging project for a group of new builds that an agent and I had undertaken. Today in Part 2 I will go over the plan in more detail as a few questions arose regarding payment and fees. As I stated before, the agent bought some of the large pieces of furniture, a ...
04/13/2012
Selling homes today presents challenges and requires creativity and cooperation between the fields of real estate sales and home staging. Sure times are tough, but hard times can bring great new ideas and actions into being. Several weeks ago I posted a blog about a savvy real estate agent who no...
04/12/2012
Fresno-Clovis home sellers listen up. This is what it takes to sell an occupied home today, especially those listed at 300K and above since they are the ones that are not moving as fast as the lower priced homes today. Your furnishings may be lovely, your home neat and clean, but so are many, man...
03/27/2012
It has been well known for several years by home staging and real estate professionals that on line photographs are the all important first impression that over 80% of potential buyers will receive of a home. That is why most home stagers and real estate agents urge sellers to make sure their M...
03/20/2012
Selling By Design-Staging Staging A Model Apartment; An Effective Marketing Strategy Last December, a week before Christmas, Selling By Design-Staging got a call from an apartment manager who wanted to have a renovated apartment staged to use as a model. I had nev...
03/16/2012
This post was so good I just had to re blog it. It is short and to the point about why sellers and realtors should not "wait and see" before staging a home. As home staging professionals we hear that all the time. It's both sad and frustrating to see homes sit on the market for months and months...
01/27/2012
Can a home sell for $14,000 more than its first offer? It can, and has in Fresno CA, due to the wise decision of a smart real estate agent and the sellers. They chose to have Selling By Design-Staging stage their home which resulted in a quick and profitable sale. The home received a full pri...
01/14/2012