Stage Your Home for Sale With Fiona Caruana Carabez

If you’re thinking of selling your home in less than 90 days, a staging session with RE/MAX Malta’s exclusive home stylist Fiona Caruana Carabez could make all the difference. 

What is meant by home staging? 

The property market is very busy, and, if you’re hoping to sell your home quickly, you may be looking for a way to make it stand out among the many properties currently on the market.

Home styling – or ‘home staging’ as it’s professionally referred to – will help to do that very effectively by making your home look beautiful ahead of a viewing or when photos of it are taken.

About Fiona Caruana Carabez

Professional home stager Fiona Caruana Carabez – who styles homes and provides 3D imagery on a complimentary basis for RE/MAX Malta’s Exclusive Listings – explains that staging is crucial, as it allows potential buyers to get a real feel for your property in Malta and to experience all its charm and character.

Fiona, who is originally an interior designer who started home staging eight years ago, loves seeing the difference of adding quality to the process of selling your property can make. She has staged everything from small apartments for sale to massive villas on sale, as well as restaurants, pharmacies, offices and boutique hotels. “Every property can benefit from staging, and all properties can look fabulous when they are staged.”

And now it could be your home’s turn – with RE/MAX Malta’s Exclusive Listing package. “Sellers in this category get their home staged and professionally photographed for free, which means potential buyers get to see it online looking its absolute best (with the use of Virtual Technology). Every room in the house is decluttered, staged and photographed.

This encourages buyers to make that all-important appointment for a viewing and, hopefully, to make a sale too!” Fiona adds.

The aim of staging your home

When Fiona takes on a staging project, she starts by making it clean and clutter-free, and stores away a number of personal items, including family photos. 

“My aim is to bring the property to a neutral state; one which is more appealing across the board. This helps potential buyers to fall in love with the house and to see themselves living here. When you’re selling your property, you do need to make some sacrifices in the short term to show it in its best light. In the long term, it will help sell your home quicker and to secure better value for it.”

Staging your property with Exclusive

Sellers in this category get their homes staged and professionally photographed for free. This means that potential buyers get to see it online looking at its absolute best. 

The process of staging your property with Exclusiveby RE/MAX before being photographed is simple. Every room in the house is decluttered, staged and photographed.

This encourages buyers to make that all-important appointment for a viewing and, hopefully, to make a sale too! Therefore, this is one of the differences between Exclusive by RE/MAX and Open Agency listings.

Here are Fiona’s tips on staging your property 

Start by decluttering your home. Begin with your cupboards, drawers and wardrobes. Once they’re clear, you’ll have somewhere to put your everyday things prior to viewing.

Take a set of photos of your priority property for sale in Malta or Gozo. Seeing your normal surroundings in a photo will put a very different perspective on this. It is astonishing how the pile of papers on the kitchen counter seems perfectly normal to you until you see it in a photo.

Remove personal photos. A potential buyer needs to be able to see themselves living in the house. Your photos only serve to remind them that this is your house.

Clean, clean and then clean again. 

A property that is for sale should be immaculate. Scrub the grout in the bathrooms, take down the curtains and have them laundered, and get your carpets cleaned. Buyers love to walk into a clean, fresh-smelling home.

Get out your best linen and make your beds. You’re out to impress your buyers on a viewing.

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