Have you ever wondered how to make the property you’re trying to sell more appealing to buyers?
One of the most effective ways is to have the house properly staged. This means to redecorate it with trendy furniture so that buyers can visualize how it would appear furnished.
This is why Home Staging and Virtual Staging become an essential step prior to listing time nowadays. But how do these two kinds of service work and what are the differences between the two? You can find out more details below:
1. What is Home Staging?
Home Staging is a physical preparation of a house. Its purpose is to make the house more appealing to the potential buyers, thus, support buyers in envisaging it as their future home. This is especially for buyers who walk through the door and directly visit the house.
To carry out this service, both home stagers and owners have a fair share of work to do. Here is a list of things to do for Home Staging:
- Consult with the professionals for ideas
- Declutter worn-out furniture, depersonalize the house by removing personal items and make space for new ones.
- Deep clean and repair flaws of the house like scratches, holes, broken things, etc.
- Choose, transport, rearrange and place new furniture into the house.
This service is a monetary investment in order to sell the houses. As stated by Kaufman from The New York Times, it will cost you $3,000 a month for home staging living room and master bedroom of a house while “staging for a studio runs about $5,000, including the consultation, installation fees and the cost of renting the furniture for three months”
2. What is Virtual Staging?
Being a technologically advanced version of Home Staging, Virtual Staging appears with the same purpose. However, instead of physical staging, it is a method of creating virtually staged photos using 3D furniture models on computers.
As the internet is taking over our lives, this service meets the demand of housebuyers to be able to review the properties online. After the houses are shot, hundreds of furniture models with different design styles are available for you to choose. If the house is already furnished, the editors can remove existing objects before replacing with 3D furniture models.
Virtual Staging does not require homeowners or home stagers to do physical works like cleaning, transporting and rearranging furnishings. The editors will do everything digitally on computers. There’re now many companies that provide this service but realism is the most important factor to rank them besides the turnaround time offers.
A renovated living space
So what service between these two will be more suitable for you? Nowadays sellers mostly change to Virtual Staging service due to below reasons:
3. Virtual Staging significantly surpasses traditional Home Staging method in terms of convenience:
Since the editors perform Virtual Staging on photos instead of real houses, homeowners do not have to spend their times on removing their current furnishings, repairing faults of their properties.
In case sellers are still living in the house while it’s on the market as they cannot afford two properties at the same time, it will disturb their living style if they have to depersonalize the house as well as use temporarily furniture.
This is even more true in the situation of 2020. When Covid pandemic happens all over the world, social distancing prevents people to go outside visiting properties for sale and repairing process or new furniture arrangement are also delayed. Virtual Staging has most of the advantages to help home sellers keep going with their work and buyers easily browse for their dream houses online.
Commercial Virtual Staging for an Office
– Virtual Staging is much cheaper than the traditional way:
With technological advancement, you only have to pay one time for virtually staged photos. You can even use it as a powerful digital marketing tool when people nowadays spend a lot of time surf the internet. On the other hand, with Home Staging, you have to set up for home stager’s consultation, repairing charges, transporting and installing fee, especially furniture renting fee.
In addition, some repairs such as repainting the walls or renewing the hardwood floor require a large amount of fee to do. Meanwhile, Virtual Staging can easily deal with it.
In conclusion, Home Staging is truly over-budget for many sellers while Virtual Staging is much more affordable.
– Virtual Staging saves you time while still offers limitless designs:
Let’s think about the case when you feel that your first chosen furniture does not match with your house. You will have to do it all over again including transporting, arranging and it will surely be time-consuming.
Yet, with Virtual Staging, the editors can quickly re-stage the photos for you with different models and latest interior design trends without wasting your time.
A bedroom with Modern interior design
Having senior editors with interior design knowledge, the reliable BEEPEC is offering high-quality Virtually staged photos, as well as Renovated ones (that need both remove existing furniture and replace with new ones), will definitely bring a great experience to you. Amazingly, a large library of furniture models is provided for you to choose from and great 24/7 customer service is focused on in order to make sure all your special request is completed. Moreover, the guaranteed turnaround time is 15-24 hours only so long waiting is eliminated and the rate is particularly affordable.
An example of Living room and Kitchen
In conclusion, although Home staging has its own strength of being real and increasing potential customers’ emotional connection to your property when they visit it, the cutting-edge technique Virtual staging is still considered to be fitter with the current situation and are highly recommended for anyone looking for an effective way to catch the eyes of buyers and brings people closer to placing an offer on your home. If you’re still struggling with finding a reliable partner to do Virtual staging for your properties, please do not hesitate to contact BEEPEC at any time via email contact@beepec.com or website https://beepec.com/. The company with nearly 10-year experience now has a long-term partnership with many big companies in Real Estate media industry and receive lots of good feedback from the clients.
