What is the Average Days on Market in Winnipeg?

How long does it take to sell a house in Winnipeg?  According to statistics just released by The Canadian Real Estate Association, the average days on market in Winnipeg is 25 days.  Out of 63 Canadian markets that were examined, Winnipeg has some of the lowest days on market in the country. This is great news for Winnipeg home owners and property investors.

But of course, this number is only an average. Some properties will take considerably longer than that to sell, especially if you are going for premium pricing on your property, in which case staging is really essential.

Its important to remember that home staging is becoming more a more widely used, which is giving a lot of home sellers a powefully competitive edge. Home staging in Winnipeg is a rapidly growing trend.  As home stagers, we work with home sellers every day, and we can tell you that there is a lot of investor activity happening in the city right now, which is fantastic.  A large percentage of our clients are property investors who bring us in to stage vacant homes that they have just completed rehabbing.  The transformation our clients do on some of these properties is just amazing.  In my eyes, some of these guys are heros for the work they do in revitalizing homes and neighbourhoods.  These property investors are rehabbing homes in some of Winnipeg’s forgotten neighborhoods and we are starting to see a gentrification occurring in some areas that desperately needed this revival.

But with some many skilled and savvy professional investors out there, its all the more important to use home staging services when you are listing your home.  Its what most of these pros are doing, and the current MLS lisitngs at any given moment in Winnipeg are crawling with homes that have been staged.  So its at the point where if you don’t have home staging, you’re at a disadvantage.  Its no longer the exception, its becoming the rule.  Otherwise you are competing against staged homes that are perfectly “packaged” to sell and an unstaged home just can’t compete with the professional “merchandising” that a well staged home has.

Note that we said “well staged”.  All homes are not necessarily staged to the same level of expertise. Here at The Home Stylists, we combine our interior design skills with in-depth understanding of buyer psychology, strong knowledge of the real estate market and property investing, as well as a 20 year history in visual merchandising and marketing.  The result is a home that presses buyers buttons.

What many people fail to fully understand, is that home staging has absolutely nothing to do with filling a home with stuff.  Even if its nice stuff. Brand new stuff. It doesn’t matter, that’s not what makes home staging work. Its about understand what makes buyers respond and why. Its about strategically mapping out a “buy decision” in the buyers mind through an entire series of very carefully planned visual details and decisions.

With the real estate market currently being what is in Winnipeg, home staging provides a powerful advantage to ensuring your home sells quickly and for top dollar, regardless of whatever the current statistics on average days on Market in Winnipeg say at any given moment.

Call us for a free home staging quote and we’ll

turn the home you have to sell into the home they want to buy!  204-390-8979