Home Staging in Los Angeles and other areas of Southern California is a strategy used to help sell your home more quickly and more profitably. Home staging is all about making the house to have the strongest first impression on the potential buyer. The goal of staging a home is different than designing or redesigning interiors for a homeowner. In the current real estate market, with prices lower than what most home sellers want for, home staging can be a factor in getting a better price for your real estate.

Potential home buyers find that a staged house is more attractive, pleasing, and appealing - which is the effect you want to create when you are selling your house. This site is all about staging homes and home staging services. It's also about helping homeowners to learn about how and why certain types of home staging work so effectively and how to do home staging yourself (if you are up to the task).

Get help staging your home the right away and make more money when you are ready to sell. Feel free to contact us with any questions or for more information.

Why Do You Need Home Staging — Home Staging adds life to houses, and can help home owners and the real estate investors to sell faster. An Empty or not well furnished houses can take longer to receive an offer and to be sold. Even adding minimum furniture, wall decoration and accessories, if done tastefully, can help staging an unfurnished home, and make a big difference in getting buyer's attention and to reduce the waiting period of selling a home for the list price.

Houses that Linger on Market — There are more homes for sale in the market than number of buyers. The combination of overbuilding new houses by home builders and real estate developers, and increasing number of foreclosures has resulted in excess supply of houses and has made it more difficult for sellers to sell their homes. In addition, with the problems in the mortgage markets, buyers have a harder time to get the financing they need to buy a home.

Home Selling Statistics — According to a report by the National Association of Realtors “The rate of sales of existing single family homes fell to the lowest level since 1998 in September.”
Reports indicate that the number of home sold in 2007 has dropped to its lowest in last 20 years, and the number of foreclosures are at high level. It also indicate that statistic, done by the end of November 2007, shows that home prices in Southern California has dropped back to what it was in 2005, and there is a possibility that it drop even further to home prices in 2004, and half of the homes are selling for less.

“The median price of an existing, single-family detached home in California during October 2007 was $497,110, a 9.9 percent decrease from the revised $552,020 median for October 2006, C.A.R. reported.”

The most effected area is Riverside which the value of the homes seems to have declined to about 15%, while median values in Los Angeles County declined 3.8%.

California Association of Realtors reported on August 2009 that July home sales increased 12 percent, median home price declined 19.6 percent. “The median price of an existing, single-family detached home in California during July 2009 was $285,480, a 19.6 percent decrease from the revised $355,000 median for July 2008.”

California Association of Realtors reported on January 2010 that ”California Price Shows Year-to-Year Gain for First Time in Two Years -
The median price of a home in California experienced its first year-to-year gain in over two years during the month of November, as the California housing market continued recent trends in terms of prices, supply, and sales. The monthly median price crossed the $300,000 threshold in November with a median of $304,520, up 2.4 percent from the October median price of $297,500 and up 5.8 percent from $287,880 a year earlier. The situation has improved greatly from a year ago during the worst of the financial crisis, when the median price had registered 41.3 percent year-to-year decline.”