A local company called Staged By Design recently sent out a newsletter (December 8th) that had the headline of, “In past 90 days, 79% of Homes Sold in Seattle Area were Staged”. These statistics were developed and researched by SBD since there is no one that really tracks this within the local MLS. How they got access to all of the property information is unknown but I’m assuming a real estate contact of theirs somehow helped them out. They broke their research into specific areas so it may not be across the board for all of Puget Sound, but I’d still say that the number is compelling and applies to areas like Bellevue and Kirkland as well.
All the Team Reba members agree with this philosophy and we have for some time having been providing these services for over 5 years for both interiors and exteriors of homes. Team Reba offers staging consultation and light staging services as part of our standard Concierge Services listing package and we can do bigger staging jobs for an additional fee if a client needs it. Because each listing is unique and different from the next, it practically requires us to have a specific approach to each client so we get into specific details during our collaborative sessions to determine what is appropriate and what fits our clients budget.
You can tell the properties that we’ve listed using our Concierge Service versus what we’ve helped our buyer clients purchase as buyer’s agents on our featured properties page of our Team Reba site, most notably by the difference in photos and how the interiors look. We like to think that we provide a superior product, not only in our services but in the properties that we help present to the marketplace. Check it out and see if you can tell the difference.
What are your thoughts on staging? Do you think it’s a valuable service and necessary in today’s real estate marketplace?
