If one were to put the perfect Australian home location, wrap it up and tie it with a bow, that location would be Sutherland Shire. Located 25 miles south of Sydney’s Central Business District, it has the distinction of offering the best of everything from beaches and waterways to National Parks. If you’re planning to sell a home in the Shire, you may imagine that the project will be ‘easy peasy’. Maybe. Maybe not.

Because of the upscale location, many beautiful homes in the Shire will take your breath away. Home shoppers here will probably be prepared to pay more for the location. Nevertheless, the proper presentation is everything here just as it is everywhere else in the region. Prospective buyers will be looking for a very special property styling Sutherland Shire needs a practiced hand when it comes to staging.

Even if you’ve just spent a bundle on interior decorating – perhaps especially if you’ve just spent a bundle on bringing a decorator in, you’ll still benefit from the services of a property styling firm. Interior decorators make decorating decisions based on what pleases the current owner. Home stagers, on the other hand, make decorating decisions based on who will be buying the home next.

Stagers don’t have crystal balls to help them know how to dress a property to make the most of the market. What they do have is mountains of information gathered from focus groups and countless studies that can pinpoint the way people in the different buying niches within the real estate market think. When they match the price of your home with the people who will be shopping in your price range, they get information that will make your home appeal to the biggest group of prospective buyers possible.
We oversimplify here, of course. It’s a bit trickier than that. Property styling Sutherland Shire, when it’s done well, can help to raise the value of your home dramatically. When it’s done badly it can stall your sale, costing you far more than not styling at all.

When a house makes its debut in the real estate listings, it will attract loads of attention in the beginning. If it lingers long among those listings, it begins to develop a reputation as being something of a lemon. If your house doesn’t sell in the first month, the price will potentially begin to drift downward. People begin to assume that there’s something wrong with the house – otherwise it would have sold immediately. Such is the very competitive real estate world in New South Wales.

As it works out, when your property stylist works magic in your home it usually does sell quickly. The International Association of Home Stagers’ data reveals that a staged home spends an average of 11 days on the market. An unstaged home will languish there among the listings for 90 days. (Think for a moment about what that long delay will cost you in terms of continuing insurance premiums, electricity bills, and council rates.)

The other thing that makes your staging investment in Sutherland Shire worthwhile is this. A selling agent is like anybody else. They fall in love with properties too. If your staging knocks the ball out of the park, your property will be shown more often. Selling agents want to sell, and the more buyer traffic a home gets, the faster the sale will take place. And, statistically, the offers for such a house are higher. It’s all about supply and demand, after all.

When you’re ready to sell a home in an affluent area like Sutherland Shire, you need to take the extra steps of hiring the best home stager you can. Selling a home is the way most of us liquidate our largest investment. Selling a home at top dollar can make the difference in the way you can live the rest of your life. It also the key to what you can pass on to your children. Your home is your legacy in a very real way.

Urban Chic Property Styling has been making the most of the homes of Sutherland Shire for many years. We know what it takes to sell your property for high dollar, and we’re ready to bring our experience and our many years of successful property styling Sutherland Shire to work for you. You’ll be glad that you called Urban Chic.