For Immediate Release
February 25, 2008

Learn how to stage your home to sell quicker in UCR Extension’s one-day class

RIVERSIDE, CALIF. – It’s no secret. The housing market is tough out there. Housing prices plunged by a record 8.4 percent in November, according to a composite index based on 10 U.S. cities tracked by Standard & Poors. What’s a seller to do? Staging your home to sell has been proven to increase the profit of your home sale by more than 6 percent. Find out how to dress up your home in the class Staging Your Home to Sell, which meets Saturday, March 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at UCR Extension Center, 1200 University Ave.

Sabine Gross-Vasquez, president and owner of America’s Real Estate Center, will show you how to improve your home’s appeal from the curb to the backyard and everything in between. Learn how to declutter, simplify, brighten, organize, replace and display so that prospective buyers have the opportunity to emotionally connect with the house you’re so eager to sell.

The fee for this class is $60 (includes parking). For information about this class, contact (951) 827-5801, e-mail arts@ucx.ucr.edu or visit www.extension.ucr.edu.

To receive a free UCR Extension catalog, call (951) 827-3806. To register, visit www.extension.ucr.edu or call (951) 827-4105 or dial toll-free at (800) 442-4990.

UCR Extension is the continuing education division of the University of California, Riverside. Extension offers more than 3,800 courses and 90 certificate programs in a variety of academic programs, including agriculture and landscape, arts and humanities, business and management, education, teacher’s credentialing, English, environmental management, forensic investigations and public safety, geospatial analysis and technology, health services and behavioral sciences, information technology, languages, law and public policy, Native American studies, natural sciences and yoga.