About Home Staging

What is home staging?

When you list your Auckland home or investment property, you’re potentially competing with dozens of similar properties in your area. Stand out in photographs and on open days with strategic home styling that maximises the use of space and presents your property at its best. Not only has it become an industry requirement in New Zealand, but professional staging pays for itself when you achieve a higher price and a faster sale.

Home staging is the art of making your property look as attractive as possible to your target market. When you invest in home staging with us, we’ll style your North Shore home to enhance its best-selling features and present it to its full potential. By staging your property, you’ll broaden its market appeal and ensure a clean and consistent flow of style, colour and space throughout. This results in a higher perceived value and, in most cases, converts to a faster sale.

 

Professionally staged homes result in better-quality marketing images, meaning buyers spend longer viewing your property online, and visitors to open homes tend to stay up to 40 % longer. In a seller’s market, when houses are already selling quickly, home staging can increase the number of offers made on your property, encouraging buyers to present offers substantially more than the asking price.

  • Helps buyers to visualise your property as their new home
  • Can improve the presentation of all rooms and areas in your home
  • Increases the perceived value of your home compared to an unstaged property
  • Can be applied to all property types
  • Showcases the best features of your home
  • Makes your property more memorable when viewed online or during open homes
  • Helps you to sell your home faster, at a higher price

According to New Zealand real estate agents, effective home staging realistically results in a property selling for 5-7% above the RV (registered value) in Auckland. Well-staged properties attract more enquiries and viewings, creating a competitive situation where someone will be more likely to pay a premium. Furthermore, nearly half of buyers’ agents believe a staged home increases the dollar value buyers are willing to offer by up to 10%. A recent RESA report found that, on average, sellers who invest in home staging before listing will sell 87% faster.

Types of Home Staging

Full Staging (Vacant Property Staging)​

Full staging converts cold, vacant houses into vibrant and inviting homes. Tastefully styling your property with our extensive inventory of carefully selected furniture, artwork, and décor creates the perfect platform for real estate agents to produce high-quality marketing material for your home. It also warms up and defines the space, showcasing a lifestyle that your buyers can visualise for themselves.

Partial Staging
(Occupied Property Staging)

Partial staging is ideal for when you intend to live in your home while it’s being marketed and sold. Do it yourself with the help of a staging consultation and full written report detailing everything you need to do to get your home ready for market, including furniture placement, repair recommendations, accessories and art, and a room-by-room strategy with bullet points that make it easy to implement for the full duration of the sale. Or you can have the staging done for you, with complementary pieces provided to supplement your existing furnishing.

Pricing

The cost of home staging depends on the size and type of your home and the kind of service that you have selected. Request our latest indicative price list or book a consultation and to get a precise estimate. Our services are completely transparent, with no hidden costs or fees, representing great quality and surprisingly good value. See below for indicative pricing.

Before & after

“Home staging is interior design, psychology and marketing all rolled into one. It will increase perceived value and size of a listing.”