House staging and fluffing has repeatedly had proven results when it comes to selling homes all over British Columbia, including those in Richmond, Burnaby, Surrey, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Kitsilano and Yaletown. However, there have been some alarming stats coming in from the rest of Canada concerning the housing market.

Pre-sale staging is not a fixed art, contrary to what many people believe. Like anything else, it goes through fashions and trends the can actually make or break the sale of your home. Finding out what’s hot and what’s not is part and parcel of the pre-staging process in British Columbia, and that includes existing real estate trends.

Real Estate Vancouver published an update on the Vancouver housing market at the end of March 2008 and the outlook was actually pretty good despite the state that the global economy is in at the moment. According to the CMHC, Vancouver has great drivers that have increased the demand for desirable housing in the city. These drivers include low mortgage rates, low unemployment, strong migration and a strong economy. In fact, when the report was released, the CMHC revealed that the gross domestic product (GDP) of British Columbia was growing at a much faster rate than that of Canada as a whole.

So what does this mean for pre-sale staging? With demand for properties in British Columbia being so high, the need for pre-sale staging is very much there. In fact, the need to make your home attractive to potential buyers is as pressing as ever because of the number of affluent people willing to invest in a family home and the competition from other families trying to sell. Good pre-sale staging can give you the advantage and never has that been more necessary!