home staging

American  

[hohm stey-jing] / ˈhoʊm ˌsteɪ dʒɪŋ /

noun

1. the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices.

   Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.

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Other Word Forms

• home stager
  noun

Etymology

Origin of home staging

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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home staging

Sellers pay about $1,800, on average, for home staging, according to HomeAdvisor.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025

In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Nikki shares her biggest home staging pet peeves.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2023

The most important part of home staging is to delete those distinctive elements, including photographs, refrigerator magnets, customized furniture and anything else that adds your own stamp to the living space.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2023

Moving costs and home staging, such as new paint, floors or remodeling, will also eat into profits.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Many notables of the early days first saw the Canyon from his home, staging in there from Flagstaff, seventy miles away.

From I Married a Ranger by Smith, Dama Margaret