How Virtual Staging Can Sell Your Home Faster?

What is virtual staging?

When a designer does virtual staging, they take existing photos of a house and make tweaks to them to give potential buyers an idea of the space’s potential. While the reputable brands don’t alter anything structurally, they can eliminate clutter, change up the color scheme, and add furnishings to an empty home.

The majority of homes nowadays are found online and 85% of potential homebuyers say that the photos are the most important factor when viewing a home online, according to Virtually Staging Properties.


Virtual Staging Service vs. Traditional Staging

With traditional staging, a professional designer will come into your house and give you recommendations for decluttering. Then, your designer will rent out pieces of furniture and art at a daily or monthly rate until your house sells. The house is not only staged for the pictures, but the same furnishings are available for potential buyers to “see in action” during open houses and tours, and the future owner can even purchase these furnishings if they so desire.

How does virtual staging work?

You can take a picture of an empty room or simply how it looks at this moment in time. From there, you explain what you are hoping for as a result, and let the experienced designers get to work.

The designers will add virtual furniture and artwork and change up the wall colors, if necessary. This process can be time-consuming, but most virtual staging companies have a great turnaround time.

Benefits of Virtual Staging

Many companies do such a great job at staging the photos that you actually can’t tell the difference between an actual staged room and a virtually staged room.

The cost is also a huge benefit.

If you’d rather take a more hands-on approach and virtually stage photos yourself, there are DIY virtual staging software services that start at around $32/photo.

Virtual Staging Companies and Software

BoxBrownie

BoxBrownie’s virtual staging services start at $32 per image and their site pledges to increase buyer interest, sell properties faster, and sell properties for a higher price.

Spotless

Spotless boasts unlimited revisions and furniture placings for prices ranging from $69 to $89 per photo. Users rated Spotless as a 9/10 for realism, which is a big issue with many virtual staging companies.

Virtually Staging Properties

This virtual staging company is top of its class for realism in their photos. They have an entire inventory of furniture and use CAD drawings to help make the images as realistic as possible. Their starting price point is $85 per picture, but they offer discounts on packages.

Real Tour Vision

Real Tour Vision offers done-for-you packages starting at $35 per image while their DIY software ranges from $7 (if you buy 100 at a time) to $15 per image.

Virtual Staging Downsides

There aren’t a ton of downsides when it comes to virtual staging, but the biggest one happens when potential buyers walk through the house. The images might get them in the door, but the real selling depends on the house and furnishings (or lack thereof).

Virtual staging saves you money, and it’s not too difficult to figure out that most sellers don’t want to spend the money they’re saving on a real estate agent—unless that agent is willing to work for a low flat rate and take the sale all the way from those professional images to closing day.