Home Staging, as it’s called in the US, or Home Doctoring if you are in the UK, is a long established practice when preparing a house for sale. Traditionally, it is almost always a lived in home or property that is ’staged’ in preparation for a sale or open house viewing day.

The reason a home is staged is to make it look fresh and inviting to interested people who come in for a viewing.
In many real estate markets worldwide, a real estate agent or consultant will always advice you to either stage a home yourself, or seek the services of proper home staging firms.

Yes, such a service may not be that familiar with residents and even real estate agents here in the UAE, and why should it be? There are hardly any homes that are lived-in for that long, that they need to be staged to sell them.

In fact, it is radically different here. Properties and homes still have that fresh brick and paint smell whenever there is an open house. If indeed there even is such a thing as an open house!

With most properties being bought out within a few hours of their launch announcements, it still is a virgin market for real estate here. Read the rest of this entry »