Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Home Staging Costs

Determining the right fee to charge for home staging services is difficult and is one of the questions I am most frequently asked.

Some stagers price their services by the square footage of the home. Obviously this is easier to estimate if one is only providing a consultation, letting the home owner do all of the work.

It gets much more involved and cumbersome to come up with a flat fee if you are doing the work for the home owner.

Rather than pricing by the square footage, one might be better off pricing by the day as home staging services can drag on for days, depending on the size and condition of the home.

All of that needs to be balanced, of course, with the price of the home and whether it is empty or not.