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  All the Home’s a Stage By LISA PREVOST Published: January 2, 2009 WESTPORT, Conn. Douglas Healey for The New York Times   HOME ‘MANAGER’ Kim Elstein, a Westport gallery owner, in the Fairfield house she lives in to keep ready for showing. WANTED: Compulsively neat, highly organized people to li...

  Showhomes Announces it Will Not Participate in Economic Downturn Home staging company helps many in down market   Showhomes, a Nashville based home staging company with 42 franchise locations, announced today that it will not participate in the economic downturn sweeping the nation. Vice Presid...

This is an interesting article from a model home in the UK. At Showhomes, we try to make our staged homes look lived in and 'unstaged' so they appeal more to the average buyer. Never tried to take it this far! A showhome has been built complete with a teenage boy’s messy bedroom to make them fee...

Trying to sell a house? Try house staging to help sell it faster Christina Leavenworth Charissa Cowart Photojournalist: Kevin Sullivan Thursday, 20 Nov 2008, 9:13 PM CST - There's so many homes on the market and many of them simply aren't selling. What if there's a way your home could sell in hal...

Showtime for your home   by Scott Van Voorhis December 2, 2008 09:00 AM Not everyone in this real estate market is hurting. Just take Showhomes. The Nashville, Tenn. company, which operates a nationwide franchise, has found a lucrative niche. It will make your home look lived in, even if you are...

Experts divided on furnished or unfurnished   I found this distubing article online from the San Fransisco Chronicle: Lew Sichelman, Special to The Chronicle Sunday, November 23, 2008 It's a question almost as old as real estate itself: Should I move and try to sell my house while it's empty or ...

I was really intrigued to stumble accross Typealyzer, a free internet tool that tells you what Myers Briggs personality you are based on your blog content. I entered my blog and it gave me this response:   ESTJ - The Guardians The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to sett...

This press release was on the web today from the Florida Association of Realtors:   Florida's Existing Home, Condo Sales Rise in October 2008 Last update: 11:05 a.m. EST Nov. 24, 2008 "ORLANDO, Fla., Nov 24, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- For the second month in a row, Florida's existing home sa...

Showhomes, America's largest home staging company, was featured by Chicago public TV as it presented at the Midwest Franchise Expo last weekend in Chicago. Showhomes has been receiving a lot of publicity for being a reccesion resistant business. In a time when real estate is slumping and many hom...

Just Staged in Nashville Courtney Edwards emailed photos of another high end condo they staged with a live in Home Manager in Nashville on historic Music Row. This $500k condo has been on the market for a long time and now looks great. Nashville, like a lot of cities, has had rampant condo develo...