Staging Your Home in The Woodlands
Staging Your Home
Staging focuses on improving a property to make it welcoming, appealing, and attractive to the largest generic audience of potential home buyers. Staging often raises the value of a property by way of repairs, furniture and accessory placement, renovations, and landscaping.

For vacant homes, rental furniture can accent the property to highlight the architectural features of the home. In assessing my properties I use the 5/5 method , provide constructive feedback, and together we put together a staging plan.

Contact Kristie for more information about the 5/5 method and how Woodlands Home Central can help prepare your home for a quick sell.
Reasons You Should Professionally Stage Your Home
  • You will sell your home for more money.
  • U.S. Housing and Urban Development reports that a staged Home will sell , on average, 17% higher than an un-staged home.
  • You will sell your house faster.
  • According to one Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Los Altos, California, who looked at nearly 2,800 properties in eight U.S. cities in 2004, they found that the staged homes, on average, sold in half the time that the non-staged homes did. The sellers with staged homes ended up with 6.3% more than their asking price, on average, while sellers with non-staged homes sold for 1.6% more than the asking price.
  • Home staging is free.
  • In a Home Gain Survey conducted in 2007 comprised of over 2000 realtors, it was discovered that sellers spent an average of $500 on staging services for their home and recovered over 343% of the cost in the sale of their home.
  • Its difficult to view your own home objectively
  • Having a staging professional get your home into its best condition for showing is helpful since you may not be able to view your own home objectively. A professional stager can see your home through the buyer’s eyes.
  • The longer your home is on the market, the less it will sell for.
  • According to a National Association of Realtors survey, homes that sold after four weeks on the market sold for 6% less than homes that sold within the first four weeks.
  • Money that you put into your home staging project is tax deductible.
  • You should take advantage of tax-free capital gains and get every possible dollar! (Check with your tax advisor)
  • If you don’t stage your home, you help sell the competition.
  • Competition for home buying is very stiff. Buyers have high expectations. Professional agents with a high success rate know that the best way to sell before the competition is to stage your home.
  • You’ll be confident you did everything possible to sell your home.
  • You won’t have to wonder if you could have sold for more money or sold faster if you had only staged your home. You’ll have done everything possible to secure a quick sell.
Kristie Carruthers
Direct: 832-515-3712