Set the Stage This Holiday Season | Red Rock Mortgage - Knoxville

There are a number of benefits to selling your home over the holidays, such as less competition and more motivated buyers.

However, because you’re focused on selling your home, it might make you feel as though you can’t celebrate the holidays this year. However, our team at Red Rock Mortgage - Knoxville wants you to know it’s quite the contrary. You can still celebrate the holidays while selling your home, you just have to keep a couple of things in mind.

There’s No Scrooge Living Here

Read on for a look at ways to successfully stage your home for sale while enjoying the holiday season.

First, look at what the houses around you are doing to decorate for Christmas. Is your home beginning to look like the Kranks’ house when they decided to skip Christmas in Christmas with the Kranks? You don’t want your house to not fit in with the neighborhood. If everyone around you is decorating the outside of their home for Christmas, so should you, even if the decorations are subtle. Potential buyers may expect to see decorations if they see decorations on everyone else’s house.

Second, you can put up decorations in your home, but keep them basic. The principles of staging a home apply to decorating, too. Decorate your tree—but don’t overload the tree. Keep it so that you can see and treasure the individual ornaments. Simplicity is beautiful. You may also want to consider leaving some of the more sentimental, personal ornaments and decorations in storage for the year, allowing potential buyers the opportunity to visualize themselves in your home.

Finally, if you’re just feeling the need to add some additional holiday flare, keep it simple, as classic is always best. Skip the inflatables, and take it easy on all the lights.

Selling your home this holiday season? It’s time to start preparing to purchase a new home for the new year! Visit the Red Rock Mortgage Knoxville website to learn how we can help you get started today on your new house search by getting you pre-approved today!