The Property Styling Company blog
Helen Silver, The Property Styling Company Bath UK, awarded “Best of Houzz 2021”
In January 2021, The Property Styling Company, based in Bath, UK, won another “Best Of Houzz” award for Customer Service on Houzz®, the leading platform for home renovation and design. The Home Staging and Property Styling business, prepares properties for sale in and...
A STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION?
The home staging/house selling process is all about getting potential buyers to emotionally connect with the property that’s for sale. Ideally, ‘we’ (the home-stager, home-seller, estate agent) want the buyer to have such a positive reaction during the viewing that...
CHEAP AND EASY WAYS TO SPRUCE UP YOUR HOME FOR SELLING
These are some cheap and easy ways to spruce up your home before it goes on the market. Ideally, even before your agent comes round to value. All that is required is a bit of elbow grease and a little bit of patience! OUTSIDE Cut the grass – it’s an instant facelift...
HOW TO STAGE YOUR LIVING ROOM
How to prepare your Living room when selling your home. Living room, Sitting room, TV room or Lounge? Whatever name you give yours, this room is often the first one a buyer sees on entering your home. Given that potential buyers form an impression, good or bad, within...
WHAT IS PROPERTY STYLING?
What is Property Styling? Home Staging, Property Styling, Property Staging, House Fluffing, Property Presentation… These are all popular descriptions used for explaining the practise of preparing a property (and its contents) for a faster sale or let, with the sole...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF…
The Property Styling Company.. It's the weekend and I've been up since the crack of dawn packing my car with all sorts of gorgeous accessories, collecting fresh flowers, buying fruit and making sure every item on my long list is present and correct. Working on a...
HOW NOT TO STAGE – SELLING YOUR HOME – PART 2
Effective property marketing will make a big difference to how quickly you can sell your property .. whatever the current market's like. After all, you are trying to 'sell' and achieve the maximum market price... you probably take care to present goods/products for...
HOW NOT TO STAGE – SELLING YOUR HOME – PART 1
There's a huge difference between a 'Staged Home', a 'Show-Home like home' and a (developer's) Show-Home but that's another blog! Subtle use of really good property styling is a property marketing dream. It helps a potential buyer to visualise your property as their...
ESTATE AGENCY – AN INSIDER’S VIEW…
Looking to sell your property quickly, for a good price and with minimum hassle? Of course you are but usually that means having to engage ..............an ESTATE AGENT! Recently I had the pleasure of attending a conference alongside 50 odd (no pun intended ;)) estate...
NEED TO SELL YOUR HOUSE QUICKLY?
Assuming you are a motivated seller, actually want to sell your property fast and not just 'test the market'... perhaps now is the time to take a long hard look at the 'detail.' A staggering 93%* of property buyers search the internet first, before they even contact...
IT’S REALLY NOT ALL ABOUT YOUR ESTATE AGENT…
Struggling to sell your home, property lingering on the market, no offers, low offers … How about giving your Estate Agent a helping hand? Perhaps, they need help to sell your home faster! Perhaps, you think, they should have sold your home by now, been inundated with...
IS THE BARK WORSE THAN THE BITE?
A guest post by a lovely Estate Agent friend! I just love small yappy dogs me, no really I do!! I have done two Market Appraisals today, both of which the clients had Dogs. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely fine with dogs, so long as they leave me alone, I mean I am...
BEFORE YOU GET A VALUATION
Spring Clean! So you've decided to put the house on the market - (or you may even be considering letting) you've thought about which Agents you'll get to value and you are itching to get the For Sale sign up. BUT WAIT… Want to know what the number one turn-off is...
THE SECRET OF MAKING YOUR “HOUSE” A HOME
Suppose you've spent the last 6 months or even 2 years searching for your new home. Suppose you employed the services of a Property Stylist and Property Finder to not only get your current home sold quickly but also to find your dream property. And, suppose...
LANDLORDS, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED STYLING TO LET?
A couple of years ago, a colleague and I were approached to put together a package for styling newly refurbished student houses. The Landlords had come to realise that upping the presentation of their properties scored major points with their target market. Their...
“BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE…BUYER”
I came across an article yesterday as featured in The Local, a Fort-Greene edition of the New York Times. The Americans are so much better than us Brits at understanding just how Home Staging, Property Styling, Property Marketing - call it what you will, gets results...
FINDING THE ESTATE AGENT FOR YOU
Should be easy to find an estate agent shouldn’t it, after all there are a dozen on the high street; they are in the property paper and they are always putting flyers through your door telling you they have a buyer for your home… just call this number for a free...
WHY NOT JUST ASK YOUR ESTATE AGENT’S ADVICE?
Whilst Estate Agents are experts in selling property and closing the deal, many are not ‘design savvy’. That’s not to say they don’t know what factors help sell a property but it can be difficult to get a property into the best-selling condition, in a timely manner,...
