Urban Condo Sells In 1 Month!

Savvy Homeowners know that Staged Homes sell!Gail Carr, ASP, IAHSP

www.musicalchairsstaging.com

An Urban Condo undergoes improvements

Musical Chairs partnered with the realtor to advise the homeowner

on repairs and improvements needed on a 2 bedroom condo

The entire condo needed painting

The hardwood floors needed to be refinished

The kitchen walls needed repair

The lighting was updated in the kitchen, bathroom and dining room

Urban condo sells in one month

The realtor and homeowner priced the condo at $499,000. As a result they received an offer at the first open house.

The first offer didn’t go through but another offer was made and accepted. The realtor and homeowner were very happy!

This was my first time working with this realtor. He had never had a property staged before.

An Urban Condo is staged

The homeowner needed to declutter before the condo could be staged

Kitchen before repairs, decluttering and staging

Living Room before

In addition to paint and new hard wood floors the living room needed a new floor plan

Our objective was to open the space up a bit so the room would look larger

We also wanted to light the room up as it tended to be dark

The room also needed updating with accessories

Bedroom

The second bedroom in this condo was being used as a spare room.

It was cluttered with spare furniture and had no real floor plan

In order to sell as a 2 bedroom condo potential buyers need to see an actual bedroom. 90% of individuals cannot visualize what a

space could look like. They need to see a staged space.

The buyer was very resistant to renting a queen size bed . The realtor came back to me a few times and asked “ Do we need to stage it as a bedroom?”

I rented a portable queen size bed to stage the 2nd bedroom.

Staging Statistics

94% of all ASP Staged Homes sell on average in 38 days or less

The average time on the market for non-staged homes is

182 days