While an obviously biased source, the International Association of HomeStaging Professionals says over 90 percent of professionally staged homes sell within a month.
If that is the case and the increase in sales among private furniture and home furnishings retailers can be attributed at least in part to homestaging, then that should be a hopeful sign that the housing market is picking up.
Ms. Eisen, president of New York-based home-staging company Interior Marketing Group, said she buys most of the furnishings at a fraction of their retail cost through websites like Craigslist and secondhand stores.
For the time being the Heathens will continue their itinerant existence, staging their home fixtures at Wolverhampton's Monmore Green track and Birmingham's Perry Barr Stadium.
Golding has agreed with Birmingham promoter Tony Mole that Somerset fans who travelled to Birmingham and hold 'rain off' tickets can use them either for the re-staging of the match at Perry Barr, likely to be 30 April, or at Somerset's home match with Birmingham on Friday.