For the right house staging can be a key driver of added value. We have seen well staged properties achieve in excess of 10% over and above our pre-staging estimates of value.
Staging isn’t for everyone and can only be fully utilised in vacant properties, however working with your agent or a staging advisor can help prepare a property to ensure a bonus price is achieved. I generally follow the rule that with smaller items such as painting, re carpeting and upgrade of boilers that buyers will factor at least double the real cost if they must plan to undertake the works themselves.
At present with all the current talk of high renovation costs the more walk in a property appears, the more likely it is to achieve a bonus price in excess of our estimate of value.
For advice on preparing your home for sale, please call Jamie Douglas at our Rathfarnham office on: (01) 493 5410.
