Keller Williams Realty - Loveland Colorado

The average increase in list-to-sell in staged homes: 1.07%
The average cost of staging: $250
Potential benefit based on a $200,000 home: $3,150

The summer buying season is heating up and it is more important than ever for sellers to put their best foot forward. The first step in doing so is staging your home. Did you know that despite the advantages of staging, only about 1 in 3 sellers stage their home?

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The Internet is one of the main sources of information buyers use during the home search process, and staging is key to showing the home at its best online. If you are unsure of where to get started, check out the data below on the rooms that sellers stage most often:

• Living Room: 73%
• Kitchen: 64%
• Master Bedroom: 58%
• Dining Room: 49%
• Master Bath: 45%
• All Rooms: 37%
• Office: 16%

The cost of staging is minimal compared to the benefits, which include more showings and ultimately a higher percentage of asking price.

Source: Keller Williams Realty, Inc., “This Month in Real Estate,” released May 2011.

Linda Hansen, Broker Associate with Keller Williams Realty-Loveland, has donated 100 teddy bears to the Loveland-Berthoud Association of Realtors® (LBAR) Easter Project. The annual project benefits Project Self-Sufficiency and Alternatives to Violence by providing Easter baskets for families in need. LBAR is collecting candy, crayons, coloring books, small children’s books and small toys for the baskets. This is the third year in a row that Linda has donated 100 bears for the project.

Linda makes the bears through her company The Whisper Works, Inc., founded in 1999 as a means of spreading encouragement, inspiration and appreciation. You can learn more about Whisper Works by visiting www.TheWhisperWorks.com or watch Linda’s Channel 2 news interview! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUz13hgPOV0

AUSTIN, TEXAS (February 21, 2011)–Keller Williams Realty reported today at its national convention that it ended 2010 with 79,315 associates, 701 market centers (offices), and associate profit share up 7.2 percent, with its agents receiving $34.6 million dollars back. Since the inception of the profit sharing program, the company has given back over $304 million in earnings to its agents. Additionally, CEO Mark Willis shared in his annual State of the Company address to more than 8,000 convention attendees that, since the real estate market’s sharp downturn in 2005, the company has grown 30 percent in agents, 40 percent in market centers, 21 percent in closed units and 11 percent in closed GCI.

“Keller Williams agents have outpaced the market in every way, through productivity and profit share. As a company, we are better off now than we were before the shift–and we have our associates to thank for that,” said Willis.

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Willis also did the honors of “turning on” the industry’s first complete lead-to-close business solution, eEdge, during his address. This unique tool is now available to every Keller Williams associate at a fraction of the cost they would normally pay with functionality to build their leads, database and sales. Additionally, with the company-wide paperless transaction system, consumers can expect a faster, more seamless closing process.

Read the rest of the press release here