Home Staging Tips

Tips For Staging your Home for Sale

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• In a slow market, it's particularly important to get a house ready to sell quickly. How do you help a client get their home in prime shape for showings?
• Beverly Tracy of Beverly Tracy Home Design in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., walks through a client’s home and sticks Post-It notes on things she believes they need to do to get their home looking its best. Here are some of her most frequently made suggestions:
•  Fix any visible problems that might be a red flag for potential buyers, including repainting stained walls.
• Cover damaged kitchen or bathroom floors with inexpensive peel-and-stick vinyl floor tiles if a more expensive change seems out of the question.
• Repaint public rooms that will garner a lot of a buyer's attention, including the kitchen, dining room, and living room.
• Clean up the exterior of the house, added potted plants, repair damaged walkways, and put a fresh coat of paint on the front door.
• Rent a storage unit and get rid of about half the furniture and most of the personal items.
• When showing the property, turn on every light in the house and tune radios on each floor to the same classical music station.
• Suggest that the owners refrain from doing much cooking (baking sweets is a good idea, however) and put good-smelling soaps in all the bathrooms

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Local Real Estate market update:

The City of Charleston, SC Real Estate market is as vibrant as ever. The revitilization of the downtown area continues to improve the local home vaules. The Charleston East Side and Upper King Street districts are in the midst of great improvements. (137) Houses sold in December 2006 for 95.15% of list price with an average sales price of $447,975 with the average days on the market at 87 days compared with (135) Houses sold in November 2006 for 96.04% of list price with an average sales price of $493,920 with the average days on the market at 76 days compared with October 2006 for 94.56% of list price with an average sales price of $459,809 with the average days on the market at 63 days compared with September 2006 for 95.71% of list price with an average sales price of $422,898 with the average days on the market at 71 days compared with August 2006 for 96.86% of list price with an average sales price of $434,243 with the average days on the market at 66 days. Charleston, SC is truly one of the premiere places to live in the World