When you are selling your home, there can be the temptation to do as much on your own as possible. After all, surely your home will be fine for showing with some vacuuming, some dusting, and maybe a little bit of rearranging. And while this may be true, to a point, you will almost certainly get better results from professional real estate staging.
The first and most important thing to consider when hiring a real estate staging specialist is the amount of time you will save. Moving from one house to another is stressful and chaotic enough as it is without having to manage every aspect of the staging process as well. Hiring someone specifically for the staging can take a load off your plate that will free you up to worry about the rest of the moving process.
A real estate staging professional will also have industry knowledge of what will work best for your house, based off current market trends seen during their other jobs. Real estate professionals are in and out of houses as a matter of course for their jobs, so they will have a much better idea of what looks are selling houses at the moment, and which looks have buyers bidding lower or not buying altogether.
In the end, although it can be tempting to take on every aspect of selling your property on your own, allowing someone else to handle things like the staging of your home can not only give you some much-needed peace of mind, it may also help your home sell quicker and for more.