Only 15% of buyers can walk into an empty space and envision how they might live in it. The rest need help. Furnishings give them that help. They provide context, scale, and emotion—transforming silence into story. And for high-value properties, telling the right story—visually and emotionally—makes the difference between lingering on the market and selling.

Conjectures about property values are dangerous whether they come from a real estate salesperson, neighbor, builder or anyone else. Accurate valuations take real work. Valuations for high-value properties can go sideways for two reasons.