Melissa Marro, a stager in South Carolina, shares these great staging stats.
I'll admit it. For the past few years I've been completely jealous of many of you stagers here in AR. You with your flashy 2 days on market, 10 days on market, etc. I sat here in Charleston thinking, we are making a difference, but I want numbers like that. Once in a while we would get something fabulous - my best story ever was a home that had been for sale for 8 months with no bites, an hour after staging there was an offer, then a backup 3 days later! That really was so seldom that is almost felt like telling tall tales though. I don't like to set unrealistic expectations for my clients. We've been quite comfortable telling them things like - normal days on market 90, ours is 45 in this neighborhood.... lately, we've been seeing things a bit differently though....
A couple of weeks ago I staged a charming Mt. Pleasant condo - it hadn't been listed yet.... 9 days after listing and it's suddenly in pending status. I contacted the agent and he said, "You made the deal happen. It was the first showing."
The odd thing about this is that it's been happening almost every week these days. Nine of the properties we've staged since January have gone uner contract in the 1-12 day range!
I had to ask one of my clients if she had notices the market being more 'hot' than usual - were things picking up? She admited that they aren't. Things are about the same as they've been. So, what's going on??? Certainly nothing that I'm going to complain about, but wow!! Suddenly I don't feel the need to be as jealous as I used to be - we have our own stats and they are fantastic!!
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