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The Top 5 Ways Real Estate Agents Utilize Virtual Staging to Grow Business Published on September 22, 2016 What are your secrets to winning listings and speeding up your sales cycle? The roOomy sales team has been getting feedback from our real estate clients that is just too good not to share! San Francisco’s Climb Real Estate Group has recently noted us as frontrunners in the virtual staging realm: “The roOomy product gives agents, furniture sellers, and consumers the ability to design and decorate a space virtually, offering a much more accurate and immersive portrait of how a home might look. It also allows consumers to try different pieces of furniture before purchasing them, helping furniture sellers make the sales process more efficient and increasing customer satisfaction.” If you have been looking for fresh new ways to upgrade your listings AND your personal brand, here are a few useful ways agents are using the roOomy virtual stagings to capture the interest of buyers, win new listings, and shorten the sales cycle. 1. Win listings. The best news we are hearing from the field is how virtual staging is helping agents win new listings. Successful agents know that selling yourself and your services is an ongoing process to drive business. A recent study published by NAR and Edit article Jennifer Strongin Marketing Content Consultant 2 1 2 Home Profile My Network Jobs Interests Business Services Go to Learning Advanced Search for people, jobs, companies, and more...

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The Top 5 Ways Real Estate Agents UtilizeVirtual Staging to Grow BusinessPublished on September 22, 2016

What are your secrets to winning listings and speeding up your sales cycle? The

roOomy sales team has been getting feedback from our real estate clients that is

just too good not to share!

 San Francisco’s Climb Real Estate Group has recently noted us as front­runners in thevirtual staging realm: “The roOomy product gives agents, furniture sellers, andconsumers the ability to design and decorate a space virtually, offering a much moreaccurate and immersive portrait of how a home might look. It also allows consumersto try different pieces of furniture before purchasing them, helping furniture sellersmake the sales process more efficient and increasing customer satisfaction.”  

If you have been looking for fresh new ways to upgrade your listings AND your personalbrand, here are a few useful ways agents are using the roOomy virtual stagings to capturethe interest of buyers, win new listings, and shorten the sales cycle.

 

1. Win listings. The best news we are hearing from the field is how virtual staging ishelping agents win new listings. Successful agents know that selling yourself and yourservices is an ongoing process to drive business. A recent study published by NAR and

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Google reports that 70% of home shoppers utilize technology to tour the interiors of ahome.

By utilizing the roOomy virtual staging platform, you are showing prospects that you areon the cutting edge as a broker, and strategically ‘going the extra mile’. You can presenttheir homes in a unique fashion to get listings noticed in an increasingly congested onlinemarket. Remember, it isn’t just buyers looking at your listings­ but potential sellers too!   

2. Bring Listings to Market Sooner. Preparing a property for listing can be a long,frustrating and expensive process. The roOomy staging team specializes in the de­personalization and cleaning of room images for staging in a way that appeals to the tastesand trends of your target market.

Before: An 'untouched' room, ready for the roOomy treatment  

Virtual staging offers you freedom from the usual hassles that plague traditional stagings,and often delay listings. Take away the stress of juggling painters, cleaners and contractorsto meet your photographer’s deadline by simply staging virtually. List at your own paceand shorten your sales cycle­ easily and inexpensively! Keep your sellers happy with ahighly effective and minimally invasive technique to make their homes shine withoutdisrupting their everyday lives.

3. Multi­Use Marketing Tool. The roOomy platform deliversprofessionally stagedrenderings of vacant or currently furnished properties in 3D and photorealistic 2D. Usethe rendered images to promote listings in all of your digital marketing, social media andprinted collateral.

All that is required from the agent is a high resolution 2D image. Simply estimate theheight of the room for staging, and make sure the original image includes where the wallsmeet the ceiling and floor. 

roOomy in Action: The roOomy team has virtually scrubbed out all existingfurniture, and about to scrub the walls for a fresh new look. The space is almost

ready for 'e­decorating'.

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4. DIY Staging. We like to call it “e­decorating”. The possibilities are endless whendesigning a space in the roOomy interior design app for iPad, giving you the freedom tobeautifully stage a single property in various ways­ an especially appealing option forunits in multi­family buildings, where your property appeals to a wider target market. 

 Mobile applications are used by 68% of new home shoppers at the onset and throughouttheir research. Agents often have an iPad handy as a mobile pre­tour and open house tool,so why not include the e­decorating process as part of your pitch? It has proven a usefulsales tool in helping agents engage fresh prospects. 

After: The transformed space. Without any physical renovation to the actual

space, roOomy's real estate team virtually designs this property so it is ready for

listing!

5. Open House Enhancement.  Speaking of open houses, several agents have printed outand displayed a high quality 2D rendering of the virtually staged property, mounted &framed, at open houses. Only 10% of potential home buyers can envision themselveswithin the home. By having a staging on hand, it addresses the popular question, “Why

does the home look different online?” Let the shoppers see for themselves. Naturalcuriosity leads to personal engagement!

Impressive photorealism sets roOomy virtual stagings apart from the crowd. It is aconversation starter, offering an opening for an impromptu interactive presentation of notonly your listing­ but your top­notch marketing services and the personalized nature ofmarketing with roOomy. Recent agent feedback has revealed that prospects often remain3X longer at open houses once they have engaged with the roOomy platform.

Want to learn more? Connect with us to add virtual staging to your upcoming

listings. 

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