It was shortly before the holiday season began, when my client packed up her gracious Central Park West apartment and moved to the West Coast.  After months of waiting for a buyer, and several hundred thousand dollars in price reductions, she was now ready to give home staging a try.  Of course, it also took some convincing from her savvy real estate agent who told her that leaving the house empty was just not an option if she was ever going to seal the deal with a buyer.

So here’s what happened….

1) The seller had the apartment listed previously for over $3 million, a bit of a stretch, which is why she later reduced the price (prior to staging)Read more