7 Most important rooms to stage, in order
1. Living room
2. Kitchen
3. Master bedroom
4. Dining room
5. Bathroom
6. Children’s bedrooms
7. Guest bedroom
Reasons, buyers’ agents say, staging has value
• Easier to visualize property – 81%
• Buyers more willing to walk through staged home they view online – 46%
• Positively impacts value of home if staging mirrors buyers’ taste – 45%
• Buyers more willing to overlook staged home’s faults – 28%
How the cost of home staging is paid
• Seller pays before listing home – 39%
• Seller pays after home is sold – 10%
• Agent’s firm pays for home staging – 3%