Home staging

PHOTO: KEVIN STENT/HOMED Even the table top is staged for an open home.

Home staging whizz Roz Scott gets immense satisfaction from her work, because she gets results.

Upping the “wow factor” in a home is often the difference between a sale and no sale.

“We were called in recently to home stage a house that had been on the market for two years,” Scott says. “With a new look, it sold within a week.”

Another property languished on the market for six weeks with no nibbles. “This was before Christmas when the Wellington market was very hot. We gave the house a makeover that raised price expectations from $1.5 million to $1.7m plus, and they had an offer three days later.”

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