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Revive Your Stagnant Real Estate Listings: Proven Strategies for Persuading Tough Sellers

Have you ever been in this scenario (maybe you're in it right now)? You list a home... You promote it... You host multiple open houses... Days, weeks or months pass... Yet little to no traffic or interest materializes. Your sel...

The Best Virtual Staging Companies Reviewed and Compared for 2023

In 2023, Virtual staging is still a relatively new concept for most home sellers and real estate agents. However, it's been proven to sell houses faster and for a higher price over and over again--for only a fraction of the cost of traditional h...

Beginner’s Guide to Real Estate Marketing: Foolproof Tips & Ideas

In order to run a successful real estate business, you’ll need to be good at marketing (the action of promoting and selling services, including research and advertising). If you’re unfamiliar with marketing, don’t worry. You don’t need a colleg...

How to Sell Your Home for More Money: 7 Proven Tips

It's come time to list your property for sale. Like most homeowners, you'd like to sell the home quickly, easily, and for the highest price. In this article, we'll take an in-depth look at the factors that impact your home's sale price and cover t...

35 Home Staging & Virtual Staging Statistics

When you're selling a home for yourself or a client, you need to know the best ways to get the best results. Well, the proof is in the pudding! Home staging has been studied and proven to sell homes for more money in less time. To read the data...

Complete Padstyler Review: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

PadStyler is a software company that provides virtual staging services, 3D floor plans, and architectural renderings. They are one of the most well-known virtual staging companies, but are they right for your needs? To help you decide, we're going...

Virtual Staging Cost: Understanding Pricing and ROI

Virtual staging is a relatively new method of selling a home for the most amount of money. The most asked question that real estate professionals and homeowners have is always: how much does virtual staging cost? This article will cover the cos...

10 Unique Open House Ideas for Realtors

Open houses are a common way to get exposure for yourself and for a listing as well as meet potential clients in person. However, hosting the same old stuffy open house in a world that has changed over the last few years won't get you the results ...

How Virtual Staging Sells Houses in Real Life: The Top 3 Reasons

If you’ve heard of virtual staging software or seen staged photos (like the one below), you’ve probably thought, “Wow, that’s really cool.” or, “I can’t believe that looks real!” We’ve heard that reaction from thousands of real estate professiona...

Real Estate Listing Marketing: How to Successfully Market a Listing

Sometimes homes sell themselves--but most of the time, there's a real estate agent working very hard behind the scenes to get the job done successfully. After helping thousands of real estate agents sell homes faster and for more money, we've c...

Complete BoxBrownie Review: Pros, Cons, Alternatives

BoxBrownie is primarily a company that offers a wide range of photo editing services, from enhancing images to virtual renovations. It's grown in popularity over the last few years, but is it the best place to send your real estate photos? There a...

Complete Havenly Review: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

Havenly is an online interior design company, intended to make it easy for homeowners and renters to connect with interior designers and decorate their home beautifully. It utilizes 3D image technology to visualize each room, along with partnershi...

Complete Styldod Review: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

Styldod is a design technology company that serves real estate professionals. As one of the most well-known virtual staging companies, they offer a variety of staging and photo editing services for real estate listing photos. However, there are a ...

Virtual Staging vs Real Staging: Which is Right for You?

Home staging is the most well-known method of selling a house for the best value. In fact, 85% of staged homes sell over the asking price by 5-23%. However, the staging industry has changed drastically in the last decade, so now real estate agents...

Apartment Staging 101: 8 Ways to Stage your Space for Sale or Rent

Home staging is a popular topic in the real estate industry, but most staged homes you see on HGTV or Pinterest are single-family houses. However, nearly 39 million Americans live in apartments instead of houses! Whether you are looking to sell or...

How to Sell a House

Overwhelmed. That’s how most people feel when they think about selling a house, buying a house, or moving in general. There are many different ways to sell a property, but let’s focus on selling a house for the most money and with the least stress...

How to Prepare for an Open House as a Realtor® (In Under 10 Minutes)

When you are working with homeowners to sell their home, there is usually a lot on their plate. By the time that you host the open house, there are only a few small details and finishing touches you can add before potential buyers walk in. In this...

19+ Outdoor Staging Ideas

Many people mistakenly believe that staging a house for sale only means moving furniture in and out of the home. However, it's more important than ever before to put time and effort into staging a home's outdoor spaces! The good news is that it's ...

25 Creative Ways to Sell a House Fast

When it comes to selling a house (or if you’re a real estate agent selling a house on behalf of a client), you want to sell it as fast and for the highest price as possible. While increasing speed and sales price is ideal, the two metrics are inve...

Complete VHT Studios Review: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

VHT Studios is a real estate photography company that also offers a wide range of services like floor plans, virtual staging, virtual tours, drone photography, and partnerships. It's presented as an all-in-one solution to real estate photography f...

How to Make a Real Estate Single Property Website

Want to showcase your listings in a professional, compelling way without wasting your time, money or requiring you to be a tech wizard? Single property websites allow you to quickly and easily showcase the positive features of a property and al...

How to Virtually Stage a Property on Stuccco

This post gives you detailed, step-by-step instructions for how to place a virtual staging order on Stuccco. The entire process takes less than five minutes and requires zero technical skills. All you need to place a virtual staging order is the p...

Complete VRX Staging Review: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

VRX Staging is a virtual staging company that offers a handful of the top staging services. It's connected to VRX Media, a real estate photography and media company, which makes them a popular choice. This article is designed to help you decide if...

How to Choose the Best Virtual Staging Software

There's a lot of chatter about virtual staging because it looks incredibly realistic and is faster, easier and more affordable than physically staging properties. For example: Like any new, disruptive technology, virtual staging can be c...

Complete Virtual Staging Solutions Review: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

Virtual Staging Solutions is a software company that specializes in virtual staging, virtual renovations, and virtual construction. They are considered one of the most popular virtual staging companies, although there is an extremely limited numbe...

Virtual Staging Frequently Asked Questions

What is virtual staging? Virtual staging is the process of adding furniture and decor to photos, like this... An example of a photo virtually staged by Stuccco Virtually staged photos are used to help market, sell or rent proper...

Luxury Virtual Staging: Is it Right for High-End Listings?

Not all virtual staging is created equal. The concept of digitally staging properties is growing in popularity, but is it right for the luxury real estate market? Read on to learn what not to do for luxury real estate listings - and how virtual...

9 Benefits of Virtual Staging

Virtual staging is a convenient and affordable method of marketing real estate listings. It's grown in popularity over the last few years - but why? Many real estate professionals still don't know the many reasons why virtual staging is the ultima...

How to Decorate a Living Room: 12 Steps + Tips

A living room is the hub of every home. It can be used for a variety of purposes, and it's usually the space where family members drink a cup of coffee, binge watch a favorite show, or spend time with friends and family. Since it's the most import...

Is Virtual Staging Legal?

When we introduce people to virtual staging for the first time, everyone is absolutely amazed by the transformations but a small group of folks will oftentimes scratch their heads and ask, “Is virtual staging legal?” Some folks have called virt...

How to Do a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA Report Tips for Agents)

A comparative market analysis (CMA) is a crucial tool for all real estate agents for more than one reason. These reports are created by comparing one property to recently sold properties in their area, and they help determine a fair and accurate l...

The Complete Guide to Selling a Vacant House for the Max Value

Most homebuyers scroll through listings and hope to find a house that stands out as their next home. Unfortunately, vacant houses don't exactly have that impact. In fact, a recent study showed that vacant properties tend to sell for an average of ...

How to Take Virtual Staging Photos

Virtual staging is an incredibly powerful way to show the full potential of any property in any location--and it can be done in 24 hours for a fraction of the cost of traditional staging. In order to leverage the power of virtual staging soft...

Real Estate Photography Pricing Tips (& How to Make More Money)

Real estate photography can be a lucrative business avenue, whether as a full-time career or a side hustle. One of the most challenging pieces of starting or growing a real estate photography business is determining your packages and setting your ...

What is Home Staging? 5 Answers to Your Staging Questions

Most people are familiar with the idea of home staging on TV, but they have some major questions about how it works in real life. This guide will cover the top questions about home staging, including its definition, types of staging, alternatives,...

How to Convert Real Estate Leads Into Sales: 10 Real Estate Lead Conversion Tips

As a real estate agent, you can spend a lot of time, money, and effort trying to get leads. Real estate is a tough industry because agents are oftentimes paying and competing for the same business opportunities. If you don’t know how to convert le...

Case Study: Virtually Staging an Ugly Garage as a Cool Workshop

What if you have a listing with a unique space like a workshop, art studio, music studio or event space.... but it's empty, cluttered or furnished with ugly, dated items? Rather than posting the photo as-is (which will turn buyers off), conside...

The 9 Most Effective Real Estate Advertising Methods and How to Create a Successful Ad Campaign

Ads are around us constantly - online, on TV, on the side of roads, in our mailbox, and on and on and on. Advertising your real estate business can be an incredibly effective way to help it scale if it's done correctly. Don't waste your time, effo...

How to Decorate a Bedroom: 13 Steps & Ideas

Your bedroom is an extremely important space in your home. After all, it's where you spend about one third of your life! Since bedrooms are a highly personal space, they should be customized, beautiful, and relaxing. However, the reality is that b...

How to Get Real Estate Listings & Seller Leads (11 Proven Strategies)

If there's one thing real estate agents need to run a successful business, it's clients. As the real estate market ebbs and flows, it can be difficult to find new listings. In the first half of 2022, the US real estate industry has experienced a s...

12 Actionable Home Staging Tips (to Sell Your House Fast)

Getting ready to sell your home or market a listing? While the process can be overwhelming and uncertain, there are a number of ways that you can help any home attract more buyers and sell for the highest value. Home staging is a hot button top...

28 Bedroom Design Ideas & Tips from Professionals

When you want to decorate a bedroom in your home, the possibilities are endless. Bedrooms are highly personal spaces, so they should also accurately reflect your unique design style and personality. However, decorating bedrooms is usually challeng...

What Buyers Want in a House in 2023 (And What It Means For You)

Since most homebuyers and homeowners have strong opinions about design, it's easy to assume that you know what increases the value of a home. However, when it's time to sell, don't make decisions based on your own opinion or what you've seen onlin...

Interior Design Styles: Examples, Descriptions and Tips

Interior design can be overwhelming, especially for those without any design experience or training. There are an endless number of design styles, and it isn't immediately obvious how they differ and what makes each one unique. How can you make yo...

42 Living Room Design Ideas, Tips, & Examples

Whether you own a home, rent, or live in a large single family home, a small apartment, or anything in between, the living room is the hub of every home. It's important for the living room to function well and look beautiful--but figuring out the ...

Complete Modsy Review: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

Editor Note: Effective July, 2022, Modsy is no longer offering online interior design services of any kind. If you are in need of online interior design services, we invite you to learn more about Stuccco Online Interior Design or click here to le...

The Best Online Interior Design Services Reviewed and Compared in 2023

Not long ago, if you wanted your home designed you'd either have to do it yourself (DIY) or hire an interior designer who would come to your home and design it for you. Unfortunately, both options have a lot of challenges associated with them. ...

What is Virtual Staging? The Definitive Guide for 2023

Real estate agents have been using home staging since the 1970s. It's not a new concept, but many home sellers, home buyers, and real estate professionals aren't familiar with virtual staging or how it works. So what is virtual staging - and do...

How to Market Yourself as a Real Estate Agent

If you want to succeed as a real estate agent, you have to learn how to market properties and yourself. For many real estate professionals, this is difficult and uncomfortable. In today's free guide, you'll know exactly where to start and kn...

How to Sell an Ugly House (Without Remodeling)

If you're a Realtor®, we hope you're consistently flooded with an endless number of stunningly beautiful, Architectural Digest-worthy properties that sell within 10 minutes of being listed on the MLS. But... maybe... unfortunately... that i...

Top 20 Ways to Get Real Estate Leads

Generating real estate leads is a vital recurring activity for any successful real estate agent. It’s easy to keep yourself busy looking through or visiting new listings but if you don’t consistently generate leads, your pipeline of business is de...

How Jennifer Berry Sold Her Home for $19,350 Over Asking Price in Three Days

A few weeks ago, we heard about Rhonda, an agent who used Stuccco to virtually stage one of her new listings. That listing went on to receive 34 showings and seven offers, then went under contract for $20,000 over listing price in two days. Rho...

Online Interior Design Project FAQs & Helpful Resources

This guide is intended for Stuccco interior designers. If you're a homeowner looking for design help, start with these pages: Stuccco Online Interior Design The Complete Guide to the Top Interior Design Styles How to Decorate Your Bedroo...

How to Sell an Ugly Home Fast Without Remodeling It

As a realtor, you give your imagination a workout every stinkin' day. Not only can you see what a property looks like today - you can also imagine what it could become. This is an amazing gift. It's a superpower. Unfortunately, few buyers have thi...

8 Home Decor Trends That Will Have You Redecorating ASAP

Like fashion, home decor trends change and evolve from year to year. And like our clothing choices, our home needs to reflect our personalities. Changing the design of your home to follow every single new trend isn't quite as simple as changing yo...

Take a photo tour of Tipsy, the rustic tiny house

Welcome to Tipsy, the 180 square foot rustic tiny house located in West Seattle. The home was designed by registered architect and general contractor, Chad Koontz of Koontz Architects PLLC. According to Koontz, "We are extremely passionate abou...

Part 5: The Seven Essentials Every Home Should Have

In this video (skip to the two minute mark to jump straight in) I share the fifth essential I think every home should have: artwork! This is such an important component of a well-designed home. Why? Because... Art has the power to: - ...

Tour Çasa Tiny, The Mexican Tiny House Set By The Sea [Photos]

Welcome to Casa Tiny, hugged by dense vegetation yet steps from the sea... The tiny home for two is located in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, part of the Oaxaca Coast. It makes perfect sense that Puerto Escondido is the home of the sec...

PART 4: The Seven Essentials Every Home Should Have

Matt shares shares essential #4: A Heavenly Mattress (apologies for the misspelling on the slideshow presentation!). Matt shares the two things most of us focus on when shopping for a mattress and how we really ought to be focused on three ...

What happens when an interior designer meets a tiny house

These days, going tiny is the new big thing. Just take a look at this Google Trends chart to see how steady and strong user interest has climbed... When you consider the cost-efficiency and flexibility that tiny house living affords, it's ...

5 Design Tips to Make the Most of Small Spaces

Have you ever wondered how to get the most out of a small space? Yep, us too. So we went straight to the source of great ideas by asking a group of professional interior designers to share their favorite tips for making a small space look la...

7 top Louisville home pros to watch for in 2016

“You build a house from the ground up,” he said. He shifted the gears in his old blue pickup truck. Eleven years old, I sat shotgun in the warn seat next to him. An empty Diet Mountain Dew bottle rolled on the floorboard as the truck roared up ...

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