Barb Schwarz, Creator of Home Staging® and CEO of Stagedhomes.com, Celebrates Her 25th Anniversary as a Professional Speaker and Trainer

Stagedhomes.com is proud to announce that Barb Schwarz, CEO and The Creator of Home Staging®, celebrates her 25th year as a Professional Speaker this year. As a seasoned speaker and top Real Estate Broker, Schwarz has logged over 18,000 hours on the speaker’s platform. To date, over one million REALTORS® have attended her various programs, including her one-day program How to List and Sell Residential Real Estate Successfully. Having traveled up to 40 weeks each year, she’s been a featured speaker at almost all National Association of Realtors® conventions, state Realtor® conventions as well as all major real estate franchise conventions. Since 1972, Schwarz has educated Realtors®, Home Sellers, Home Stagers® and the public on Home Staging® starting first in the Seattle, WA area. Her gift for speaking and ability to educate, motivate and entertain was recognized by the National Speakers Association in 1990 when they awarded her the coveted designation of Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), earned by less than 250 speakers worldwide. Barb Schwarz is a leader, an innovator, and a truly gifted speaker who shares the wisdom of her personal triumphs. Those who experience Schwarz are always struck by her incredible energy as well as the practical substance of her programs. Schwarz is also the author of seven books, including the recently published Staging To Sell: The Secret To Selling Homes In A Down Market. Barb is the creator of the “Staging To Sell and Staging To Live” ® concepts and she holds the Federally Registered Trademark from the US and Canadian Governments on Stage® as a service mark. Barb invented the Home Staging concept and industry when she entered the world of real estate as an agent in Bellevue, WA, in the early 70’s. Nearly 40 years later, Schwarz has repeatedly been acknowledged as being among the top 50 most influential women in the real estate industry. To date over 21,000 have participated in her accredited ASP® Courses and Designation for Realtors® and Stagers. Schwarz is the Founder and Chairwoman of ‘The International Association of Home Staging Professionals® and IAHSP® Foundation,” and the Founder and Director of ‘The Staging University®.” Schwarz is also the founder and CEO of Stagedhomes.com, the internationally recognized leader in the Home Staging Industry because of the Home Staging educational trainings of the ASP® Course and Designation, the Stagedhomes.com Home Staging Directory where the public finds ASP® Real Estate Agents and ASP® Stagers to list and Stage® their homes, and the Stagedhomes.com Staged Homes portal which lists homes that are Staged for sale.

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