Showhomes

We opened a New Orleans Showhomes office just 3 months before Hurricane Katrina hit. What amazingly poor timing! The franchise owner, Hudson Wolfe, lost all of his staged homes and a ton of inventoryduring the storm. If that were not bad enough, the real estate market in New Orleans fell flat on ...

This article on Showhomes Scottsdale ran onthe 4th of July:   July 4, 2008 Selling homes by showcasing Edward Gately, Tribune Homebuilder Matthew Lupton purchased an older house in a well-established Scottsdale neighborhood for $600,000, demolished all but one wall of it and built a lavish new ho...

At Showhomes, we provide a really specialized service for a very specific niche in the real estate market: vacant homes for sale over $500k. We really pay attention to vacancy rates - what we call the % of vacant homes for sale out of the total number of homes for sale in an area. During the boom...

Natahsa Little, one of our newest Showhomes franchise owners, posted this on her blog today and I think its a great read. Staging associations are a great way to support each other but belonging to a franchise company takes support to a whole new level - at Showhomes, we are all in business toget...

At Showhomes, we recently decided to redesign our business cards which have been the same since 2004. In thinking about how we use cards in the staging industry, we decided to go with a fold-over card that used before and after photos to better tell what we do. Just like in most of real estate, p...

Showhomes is pleased to annouce the opening of a new home staging business in Denver! George and Dena Hart have purchased the Showhomes franchise for the Denver area and will begin operations in August. George and Dena have tremendous business expereince and we are happy to have them in our commu...

Here's a blog post about our sister company in Atlanta, GA: Is your home a Showhome? Today was an interesting day. Randy Travis of Fox5 here in Atlanta was on location on one of my listings, 9010 Brixham Court in Suwanee, shooting some video for a story about a vacant home staging service.  The h...

Reading Mellisa Marro's great post on Open Houses remided me of some recent news coverage we received from our open houses. At Showhomes, we often cater the open house and feed the Realtors and Brokers who attend. In many markets, we have a following for what we prepare. Cindy Montgomery, our Sh...

This is a news story on Showhomes from earlier this year that I just received a copy of. It does a great job ef explaining how Showhomes stages vacant homes for sale: Home Managers Could Help Your Home Sell Faster Darcy Pohland MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) CBS ― With the housing market in a slump, home sel...

Selling a house? Consider live-in Home Manager Wednesday, June 25, 2008 By Ric Romero These days, it's a buyer's market in real estate, and many houses are sitting empty much longer than the owner would like. Here's a new twist that is helping sellers seal the deal more quickly. Most likely you ...