| ""Staging, the secret weapon of real estate, is the art of preparing and packaging a home for sale. Current statistics indicate that staged homes are on the market 13.9 days as opposed to 31 for non-staged homes and that staged homes sell for an average of 6.9 to 10% over listing price."" "Cleveland, Ohio (PRWEB) -- You put your house up for sale for $250,000. It's on the market nine months, during which time you reduce the price by thousands and thousands of dollars. You get no offers. Had you "" "" your home prior to putting it on the market, however, it could have shown at its very best from the start and you'd have received top-dollar offers in just a fraction of the time." "" says Diana Hudson of Devine Designs in Mentor, Lake County's first and only professionally trained and certified home staging and redesign expert." "" staging is the art of preparing and packaging a home for sale and industry statistics seem to bear out its value. The National Association of Realtors found that staged homes are on the market 13.9 days as opposed to 31 for non-staged homes. NAR statistics also indicate that staged homes sell for an average of 6.9 to 10% over listing price." "While staging is still a relatively new phenomenon to Northeast Ohio, realtors and homeowners have likely seen HGTV's "" "For years staging has been the trend in real estate on the coasts. I'm excited to bring my experience and expertise to home sellers and real estate agents," "" said Hudson, a certified One Day Stager who has returned to her native Lake County after spending more than 15 years in San Diego, California and Atlanta, Georgia." "Last month's housing trend report for the greater Cleveland metro area indicated there's a glut of homes on the market." "It's a buyer's market. Many homes have been up for sale for more than a year," "Hudson says that homeowners who want to receive top-dollar offers and sell quickly should stage their homes before MLS photos are taken and the home is placed on the market. "" "The best pool of buyers tour during the first four weeks a house is on the market." "There are nearly 1,500 single-family homes for sale in Lake County alone. Staging helps a
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