Across 76 large metros, the more people search for home staging and virtual staging, the longer homes take to sell (correlation 0.26). In the quarter of metros with the most staging searches, the median home sat 59 days; in the quarter with the fewest, 46 days.
Stagingmate ResearchStaging searches per 10,000 homes-for-sale searches in each metro's Google search area, compared with the metro's median days on market. Metros with fewer than 1,200 staging searches over 24 months are excluded (76 remain).
This is a correlation across metros, not a test of whether staging speeds up a sale. The likelier reading is the reverse: where homes sit longer, sellers and agents look for ways to stand out. Google reports rounded monthly search volumes, and very small volumes show as 10 or nothing, so small states and rare queries are noisy. Google may group close variants of a query. Search volume measures interest, not transactions.
median days on market in the metros with the most staging searches.
in the metros with the fewest.
correlation between staging search and days on market across metros.
| Metro | Staging searches per 10k home searches | Median days on market |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco, CA | 655 | 40 |
| Charleston, SC | 543 | 56 |
| Denver, CO | 472 | 54 |
| Austin, TX | 463 | 71 |
| Portland, OR | 451 | 64 |
| Seattle, WA | 450 | 47 |
| Miami, FL | 433 | 83 |
| Urban Honolulu, HI | 420 | 76 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 415 | 68 |
| Boise City, ID | 412 | 47 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 406 | 54 |
| Houston, TX | 399 | 54 |
| Colorado Springs, CO | 391 | 59 |
| San Diego, CA | 386 | 45 |
| Las Vegas, NV | 382 | 59 |
| Tucson, AZ | 377 | 60 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 372 | 56 |
| Tampa, FL | 361 | 74 |
| San Antonio, TX | 357 | 69 |
| Chattanooga, TN | 350 | 63 |
| Orlando, FL | 348 | 76 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 333 | 63 |
| Omaha, NE | 330 | 43 |
| New York, NY | 317 | 56 |
| Washington, DC | 304 | 41 |
| Dallas, TX | 295 | 58 |
| Spokane, WA | 292 | 48 |
| Atlanta, GA | 289 | 58 |
| Boston, MA | 269 | 42 |
| Portland, ME | 258 | 53 |
| Baton Rouge, LA | 256 | 75 |
| Charlotte, NC | 251 | 60 |
| Baltimore, MD | 250 | 42 |
| Nashville, TN | 250 | 60 |
| Little Rock, AR | 249 | 52 |
| Wichita, KS | 248 | 55 |
| Raleigh, NC | 247 | 58 |
| Salt Lake City, UT | 247 | 56 |
| Columbia, SC | 246 | 51 |
| Richmond, VA | 245 | 45 |
| Knoxville, TN | 228 | 63 |
| Providence, RI | 223 | 41 |
| Tulsa, OK | 222 | 59 |
| St. Louis, MO | 216 | 49 |
| Greenville, SC | 216 | 59 |
| Albuquerque, NM | 208 | 67 |
| Sacramento, CA | 208 | 50 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 200 | 42 |
| Columbus, OH | 189 | 47 |
| Des Moines, IA | 182 | 65 |
| Birmingham, AL | 180 | 62 |
| Madison, WI | 180 | 53 |
| New Orleans, LA | 178 | 78 |
| McAllen, TX | 176 | 78 |
| Hartford, CT | 176 | 37 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 176 | 47 |
| Memphis, TN | 172 | 68 |
| Chicago, IL | 171 | 40 |
| Albany, NY | 162 | 57 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 156 | 54 |
| Rochester, NY | 154 | 36 |
| Syracuse, NY | 152 | 54 |
| Toledo, OH | 151 | 45 |
| Louisville/Jefferson County, KY | 149 | 45 |
| Dayton, OH | 148 | 46 |
| Buffalo, NY | 146 | 47 |
| Detroit, MI | 146 | 45 |
| Greensboro, NC | 145 | 57 |
| Grand Rapids, MI | 141 | 45 |
| Milwaukee, WI | 135 | 38 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 135 | 60 |
| Cleveland, OH | 131 | 47 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 128 | 44 |
| Harrisburg, PA | 122 | 42 |
| Fresno, CA | 116 | 57 |
| Scranton, PA | 106 | 53 |
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Stagingmate Research (2026). Homes sit longer where people search more for staging. https://stagingmate.com/research/do-staged-homes-sell-faster-what-search-data-says
Free to use under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page. For the full dataset or a local cut, email press@stagingmate.com.
This data can't answer that directly. It shows staging searches are highest in metros where homes take longer to sell, which suggests sellers turn to staging when the market slows.