It is the act of preparing a home, condo, or other property for sale in the real estate marketplace.  Decorating your home personalizes it with your unique decorating style and taste.  Staging depersonalizes a house.  It removes your specific tastes and styles and neutralizes it.  When potential buyers come to view a house, they need to be able to visualize themselves living in it.  Buyers require the freedom to visually move their own things into each room and decide whether or not they could feel at home there.  On the other hand, a vacant property is much harder to visualize a room's full potential when there's nothing inside it.  Furnishing a room puts it in context and gives buyers a better idea of how it can be used.  When selling a house, staging is mandatory!