Staging your Jersey Shore home is all about putting your best foot forward for potential buyers. By highlighting its most desirable features, you can draw more interest to your home and leave a lasting impression that is sure to help you sell it more quickly. Also, home staging dramatically reduces how long your property stays on the market before it sells. Here are the staging strategies you should keep in mind as you prepare for your next open house or viewing!
Staging Strategies for Your Jersey Shore Home
Help Them Visualize it as Their Own
Make it easier for buyers to imagine themselves making your house their home by removing personal memorabilia, knick-knacks, and photos. Instead replace them with simple décor, such as paintings, nature images, and plants.
Think Sleek Instead of Comfy
Modern-day buyers are leaning toward modern, crisp, clean interiors over comfy, homey looks. When staging your home, keep a minimalist mindset. Incorporate bright colors and metal accents.
Deep Clean the Small Spaces
It’s obvious to say that you should clean your home before viewing. But don’t forget to cover your bases by deep cleaning the small spots. Take time to scrub porous areas like grout that may hold on to stains and baseboards where small pet hairs and dust love to cling.
Spruce Up Your Curb Appeal
The first impression your home gives to potential buyers is its exterior. Ensure you have neatly trimmed hedges and shrubbery, bright flowers, and a clean driveway. Add higher wattage bulbs to exterior fixtures as well. You want buyers to see your Jersey Shore home no matter what time of day they pass by.
Set the Mood
A home is so much more than just the way it looks. So you need to appeal to the other senses. Prior to having potential buyers over, set the mood by burning delicious-smelling, lightly scented candles and selecting an upbeat, happy soundtrack to play in the background.
Beach Badges Required Starting This Weekend!
Don’t forget! If you plan on visiting a Ventnor, Longport, or Margate beach this summer, beach badges are required for entry. Inspectors will be out at the beaches starting this weekend (Memorial Day weekend). If you haven’t purchased one yet, there is still time to get it at a discount. Prices double on June 1st.
Sherri Lilienfeld, Apex Prime Realty, Your Source for Jersey Shore Real Estate