If you are trying to sell your house during a holiday season, you know how stressful it can be. Besides the added stress of preparing for the holidays you have to deal with showings and trying to sell your home.
When it comes to preparing your house for showings and open houses, you may wonder if you should stage it as you normally would or stage it for the holiday season. This is a very common question, and the simple answer is – Yes!
Potential buyers who are taking the time to look at homes during the holiday season are serious buyers otherwise they would be spending their time shopping, wrapping gifts and going to parties. So right away you know that you have very interested people viewing your property. These will be people who will want to imagine themselves celebrating future holiday seasons in this home. If you can set the stage so that potential buyers can easily picture themselves opening gifts in the living room, baking gingerbread houses in the kitchen, or decorating the tree, you will create pockets of emotion that will tug at a buyers heart strings and make your property very appealing.
Another thing to keep in mind is that everyone knows it is the holiday season, you cannot ignore it. That being said, if you don’t stage the house with any festive touches at all it may seem unnatural for potential buyers who expect that a home will have some decorations for the holidays. If a home doesn’t have any signs of the holiday season when it’s being shown, it can be hard for people to imagine themselves living and celebrating future holidays in it.
The important thing to remember with the holidays approaching is to stage the home as you would any other home at any other time of the year – with pockets of emotion. Only when you are staging a home around the festive season, use the holidays to create your pockets of emotion. This can be one of the most effective times to stage and sell a home, because festive staging techniques can create quite an impact on potential buyers so go ahead and deck the halls.
Karen Schaefer is owner and writer of www.simpleappeal.com which is a home staging site & we provide information regarding home staging, real estate tips, stage your home and many more property staging.
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