With a Little Help from a Friend
You’ve heard of home staging. Just about everybody has. It’s a relatively new industry that’s developed over the past 15 to 20 years to become a global phenomenon. Have you ever wondered just what it is that home stagers do? What are property styling services, anyway?...
Upping the Seller’s Ante
It’s becoming ever more apparent that the seller’s market we’ve been enjoying in the world of Sydney real estate has come off the boil. These days, there are more homes available – at present about 26,000 offerings across Sydney which means 26% more listed properties...
To Your Advantage
A new report from ING, the Millennial Homeownership Report, is opening the eyes of Sydney area home sellers in a positive way. The study finds that the largest segment of home buyers, the millennials, is ready to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to buy into home...
There’s a Fan for That
If, in preparing your house for sale, you hit upon the idea that installing a new ceiling fan is a good idea, you’re absolutely right. Ceiling fans can boost the efficiency of your home’s air-conditioning system in summer and in winter, making for attractive savings...
Sudden Moves – A Homeowner’s Nightmare
If the world were a perfect place, we’d all have lots of time to prepare our houses for sale. We would have months to decide which renovations and updates we would make, and plenty of time to study the costs and potential return on the investment for such projects....
Step Aside
When you are dealing with the many desires of potential home-buyers and attempting to fill their wish lists, the size of the job can be overwhelming. Of course, your house cannot possibly be all things to all buyers, but you naturally want to appeal to as many...
Staging Your Guest Bathroom
Are you among the fortunate who have a separate bathroom for the exclusive use of your guests? Bravo. In some quarters, that’s the sign of ultimate opulence. When the time comes to stage your home for sale, though, remember that those who will inspect your listed...
St George – A WOW Community
We think you’d have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of just about any home in St George. Does it actually get any better? South Sydney’s St George area is just about the most balanced of all Sydney’s suburbs. The demographics there are about half and half --...
Millennial Magnetism
Fortunately for Sydneyside sellers somebody is keeping a close eye on those thousands of millennials who are preparing to buy their first homes. That watchful professional is the real estate stylist. Because so much of what dictates a big sale to this huge group of...
It’s Subliminal
Your house is immaculately clean, freshly painted, repaired to the hilt. Now your selling agent asks you to stage it. What? Isn’t it staged already? Without furnishings, your house is only half-baked, so if you plan to serve it to your guests (read, potential buyers)...
What are Property Styling Services, Anyway?
When it comes to property styling services, the products offered by Sydney property stylists are practically unlimited. Most of them are capable of picking up the sale of your property wherever you want to hand it over. Even if you require a moving van, most of the...
Trading Spaces
Older homeowners around Sydney are moving. Interestingly, many of them are doing exactly the opposite of what we might expect. Instead of clinging to the home where they raised their families in the suburbs, many empty nesters are headed back to the city life....
The Right Tool Box
Hats off to home stylists! We’re always amazed, and even more so in the current housing market environment, at the way a really great home stylist can transform an ordinary house into a dream come true. Even now, when there are a gazillion properties on the market for...