The 7 Best Virtual Staging Services for Real Estate
Reloquence invites sellers, developers and investors to stage properties with contemporary or fine art, virtually. The properties can be shown completely empty otherwise, or with a minimum of strategically placed furniture.
Recommended New York City galleries* include, but are not limited to:
As the pandemic pushes the real estate business to get creative in how homes are bought and sold online, staging services are booming. Homes that present well in videos and photographs are the first to capture the attention of buyers, and staging a home can make a dramatic difference in how quickly and at what price a home sells.
But the future of home staging goes beyond just hiring a designer. This popular service is going virtual. In fact, virtual staging is cheaper, faster, and easier than physically staging a home -- and boasts similar results.
Some studios have photographer networks covering all 50 states, others expect the client to provide the photographs. Some are full service with high-end digital enhancements and design, others are self-service. Most will add furniture, cabinetry, flooring, paint and virtual twilight, but can also include 3D floor plans and virtual landscaping upon request.
If you have a favorite artist or gallery, some services will customize your rooms with fine or contemporary art pieces to help your property stand out from others and give your local artists some additional exposure. To make your property look expansive, stage it completely unfurnished with strategically placed artwork and nothing else. If you prefer museum-quality art, some collections will allow royalty-free use from their digital archives. Stage with Middle Eastern or Asian art to attract international buyers. Tara Gallery in Pacific Palisades, California has an extensive collection of contemporary Iranian art.
Most agencies will provide virtual staging to residential properties as well as commercial, including:
Multi- & Single-Family Developments
Office Spaces
Vacation Rentals
Senior Living
Retail Stores
Event Venues
Hotels
Warehouses & Industrial Spaces
Zillow search engines favor listings with videos, so ask your realtor to use a slideshow maker to add music or voice-over narration for a memorable tour of your property.
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Antonio Cavallucci (possibly) (Italy, 1752-1795)
Gift of Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross to LACMA in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary
Here are some of the best virtual staging software and apps available today according to Hubspot.
1. PadStyler
Price: From $59/photo
Two-day turnaround, a 100% money-back guarantee, and free revisions are just a few of the perks PadStyler offers. They’ve virtually staged over 50,000 homes and claim these homes sell for an average of 19% higher than others on the market.
Virtual home staging, virtual furniture replacement, virtual kitchen vision, virtual curb appeal, virtual renovation, and 3D floor plan rendering are a few of the features that make them a premium option for sellers. They even have a catalogue of 86 paintings that you can add to your home too.
2. VHT Studios
Price: To see rates for Silver Series, Gold Series, and Platinum Series plans, enter your zip code here
VHT offers similar services as those listed above. Staging, painting, decluttering, redecorating, and virtual twilight are all available. And they promise to help you sell your home 32% faster, with their photos and expertise.
3. VRX Staging
Price: $35/photo
Upload photos under 6MB and VRX will return them by the very next business day before 5:00 PM CST, Monday through Friday. You’ll receive one free revision per photo and only pay $5.00 per revision per photo after that. Want them to take the photos for you? They can do that too, if you’re located in the United States.
4. Real Tour Vision
Price: Self-service image staging, $15/photo; Full-service virtual staging, $35/photo
Use their new furniture removal tool to tackle do-it-yourself virtual staging for a discounted rate or leave it to the professionals with their full-service virtual staging offer.
5. Barion Design Luxury Home Staging
Price: From $119/photo
Selling a luxury home? Consider celebrity home stager Ilaria Barion’s boutique firm. They combine upscale home staging expertise and high-end design for digital staging that’s a cut above the rest.
Choose from virtual staging for an empty home, virtual furniture replacement and cosmetic work, virtual landscaping and outdoor staging, night virtual staging, architectural rendering services, and more.
6. Spotless Agency
Price: Light, $79/photo; Standard, $99/photo; Professional, $199/photo
Send them photographs of your rooms in the biggest size you have in JPEG format (they recommend using a professional photographer for best results). Then, choose an interior design style and provide a floor plan. Once you’ve submitted that information, Spotless will contact you to discuss next steps. Sotheby’s International Realty, Corcoran Group, and Compass are among their top-billed clients.
7. BoxBrownie
Price: $32/photo (No volume discounts available)
BoxBrownie promises to increase buyer interest, help you sell properties 75% faster, bring in a higher sales price (up to 85% higher), and help you stage a home at a fraction of the cost of non-virtual staging. Give them your photos and 48 hours and they’ll do the rest.
For additional fees, BoxBrownie also offers image enhancement, day-to-dusk image retouching, floor plan redraws, renders, copywriting, and 360-degree services.
Barion Design is a boutique virtual staging company that specializes in luxury properties. Founded in 2005 by Ilaria Barion, a New York City luxury home stager, they are America’s leader in luxury virtual home staging.
