| It is common knowledge that the US Real Estate | | | | Ocean Park, Pembroke Shores, Hilltop, Pine Meadows, |
| market is struggling with the foreclosure crisis, | | | | Princes Anne, Pungo, Indian River Plantation, Salem, |
| whereby hundreds of thousands of residential as well | | | | Salem, Sand Bridge, Seatack, Shadowlawn, Thaila, |
| as commercial properties are lying unsold. Even | | | | Thaila Shores, Thoroughgood, Witchduck Point and the |
| locations where homes were selling like hot cakes | | | | Oceanfront. |
| during the boom years are hard hit by huge inventories | | | | Housing demands in these first-class locations were |
| of homes, waiting for buyers. | | | | far exceeding the supply and home sellers got what |
| According to latest reports, more and more "Hotspots" | | | | they wanted by way of asking their price just like that. |
| are newly emerging, apart from the long list of cities | | | | But not anymore - since there are 4,470 homes |
| and metros from California; Florida; Nevada; Michigan; | | | | waiting for sale as of this date, together with 480 |
| and Arizona, carrying enormous homes on their "For | | | | foreclosed homes listed for distress sale. |
| Sale" lists. | | | | So it becomes immensely necessary for any home |
| According to the reports for February, one such | | | | seller, who wants their home sold fast amidst the |
| "Hotspot" is Virginia Beach, an Independent City and | | | | above crowd and fetches the asking price set for it. It |
| one of the seven cities of Hampton Roads, and the | | | | follows without saying that unless they make their |
| largest city of Virginia State. It is the easternmost of | | | | home stand out of the crowd and attract prospective |
| the Hampton Roads, known as "America's First | | | | buyers flipping through the long list of homes available |
| Region" consisting of other Independent cities of - | | | | for sale, there is no way. |
| Chesapeake; Hampton; New Port News; Norfolk; | | | | It is here many home sellers use the new strategy of |
| Portsmouth; and Suffolk along with smaller cities, | | | | Home Staging. They contact a seasoned Home |
| counties and towns. | | | | Staging professional for help. The Accredited Home |
| Virginia Beach is recorded in the Guinness Book of | | | | Staging professional visits the concerned property, |
| Records for having the longest pleasure beach in the | | | | views the present status of the home and suggests |
| world. | | | | appropriate Home Staging techniques needed to be |
| Virginia Beach has excellent neighborhoods and | | | | undertaken. |
| communities such as Acredale, Chesapeake Beach, | | | | Thus the Home Staging professional in consultation |
| Brigadoon, Great Neck, Kings Grant, Alanton, Green | | | | with the home owner and selling agent carries out |
| Run, Buckner Farms, Bayside, Blackwater, Brighton on | | | | proper "Home Staging" of the property, in the least |
| the Bay, College Park, Glendwood, Croaton Beach, | | | | expensive way possible. After that, the property gets |
| Church Point, Greenwich, the North End, Kempsville, | | | | a totally new look - "curb appeal" is what they call it - |
| Landstown, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Little Neck, | | | | whereby the existing disadvantages are minimized and |
| Middle Plantation, Munden, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, | | | | the advantages that the home has are maximized. |