Morning sun on the Keepsake truck parked at the foot of a limestone townhouse row

Staging movers in NYC for realtors and home stagers

Your pieces travel wrapped, we file the COI with the management company and book the freight elevator, and the price is guaranteed before you set a date. Furniture goes in before the photos and comes out after the sale, on your schedule and the building’s.

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Step 1 of 4: Move

Step 1: Move

First, the move itself

Where you're leaving and where you're landing.

Street address is best, but a neighborhood works.

Even just the borough is fine if you're not sure yet.

Keepsake movers folding moving blankets over a dining table beside a box marked DINING ROOM

Staging moves

We move the furniture that sells the listing

Your inventory has to look new at every address it shows in, so each piece rides wrapped and padded however short the drive between listings is. Set-down follows the layout you or your stager hand us, down to which wall the credenza faces, and by the time we leave the rooms are ready for the camera.

The paperwork that gets furniture past the lobby is ours as well. If the listing sits behind a doorman, we arrange the certificate of insurance with the management company ourselves, and the freight elevator is reserved for the hours the install runs. Our federal and state registrations are listed on our licenses page for any manager who wants to check them, and if a building’s rules look unusual, call (212) 203-3171 and we will talk them through with you.

In the price

What comes with every staging booking

Everything on this list is inside the price before you approve it, so the number is safe to forward to a client exactly as it stands.

  • A flat price guaranteed before the install is booked
  • COI paperwork settled directly with building management
  • The freight elevator reserved ahead of install day
  • Curb space for the truck checked at both addresses
  • Every piece wrapped and logged on the inventory sheet
  • Floors and railings covered before the first carry
  • Each piece set down where the staging plan puts it
  • Federal and New York State licenses any building manager can verify

One flat price, locked in before moving day

Your quote is a guaranteed flat fee for the whole job. If moving day runs long, you still pay the number you agreed.

Flat-fee pricing

What shapes a staging quote, and what it covers

How much is being installed
a few hero pieces for the main rooms or full furniture for every floor of the listing.
Access at the listing
stairs add carrying time, and a doorman building adds the COI and the elevator booking, so tell us what the front door looks like.
Where the inventory starts from
the pickup point counts toward the price, from a warehouse in the boroughs to a listing that just closed.
The curb at each address
we read the parking signs at both ends ahead of the date, so the truck is parked legally while the furniture crosses the sidewalk.
One leg or both
price the install on its own, or add the de-stage and storage we arrange between listings to the same figure.

Price the install before you book it

A guaranteed flat quote needs only the listing address and a rough list of what's going in. Approve it yourself or pass it to your client as the finished staging cost.

Inside the truck, a Keepsake mover tightening a ratchet strap over a pad-wrapped dresser

After the sale

The furniture out, once the deal closes

The de-stage runs like the install in reverse. We wrap each piece in the room where it stands, pad the doorways and banisters before the carrying starts, and bring the load back to wherever your inventory lives between jobs. Price both legs in one quote, or come back to us when the closing date is set.

Get your flat quote

Storage, picked up and brought back

If the new place isn’t ready yet, we arrange the storage and load your things in ourselves, still wrapped from the move. When you have the keys, we bring it all back.

Storage options

The Keepsake truck's open rear showing furniture strapped under grey pads and labelled boxes in tiers

What agents and stagers ask us

The closing date isn’t set yet. Can we book the install?

Yes. Price the install on its own and come back for the de-stage when the deal closes, or ask for both legs now and the whole staging cost sits in one approved figure. Each leg is flat and guaranteed either way.

Who deals with the building about the COI?

We do, directly with the management company. Send the building details with your quote request, we file the certificate, and you only hear about it once it is approved. It is usually the slowest paperwork in the job, so it goes first.

Can our staging company coordinate with you directly?

Yes, and it usually runs smoother that way. Introduce us to whoever manages the design and they can send the piece list and the room-by-room layout straight over, so you are never forwarding floor plans between two companies.

What do you need from us to price an install?

Roughly how many pieces are going in and where they are collected from, plus what the lobby and stairs look like at the listing. The price is built from those answers, it is guaranteed once you have it, and a slow elevator queue on install day never changes it.

Where does the furniture go between listings?

Into storage we arrange as part of the same job whenever there is a gap to cover. Every piece is wrapped and written onto an inventory sheet at collection, then held until you have the next listing ready for it.

The listing photographs next week. Is that enough notice?

Sometimes it is, so send the listing address and the piece list over. What usually decides it is the building: a doorman listing needs the COI approved and the freight elevator booked before install day, and that paperwork sets the pace. We would rather say no up front than leave a photographer shooting around missing furniture.

Moving from New York

Heading to another state?

We move that route, we just haven’t written the page yet. Leave your details and we’ll come back with a quote.