June 30, 2010
- Which is Better for Home Sellers?
Which is Better for Home Sellers?
If you're trying to sell your home, you may find yourself asking the question, "Which is better, lowering the price of the home, or offering to pay some closing costs?"
In short, there is no right or wrong answer to that question, it's just a matter of which strategy gets the [...]
May 7, 2010
- Preparing Your Home for Sale
Preparing Your Home for Sale
In today's tough real estate housing market, there are things you absolutely must do in order to prepare your home for sale. Don't put your for sale sign out (or sign a listing agreement) until you have done these things.
General Items:First and foremost, don’t price your home out of the market [...]
March 24, 2010
- Spring Clean Before You List Your Home for Sale
Spring Clean Before You List Your Home for Sale
With Spring upon us, and now that Daylight Savings Time is here for most of the country, it is time for home sellers to start thinking about the spring housing market. One of the best ways to prepare for putting your home on the market, even if [...]
March 11, 2010
- Ways To Get More Money From Your Home
Ways To Get More Money From Your Home
The freefall in home prices may be over, but the buyers' market persists–there's stiff competition to get a house sold for a good price. In a competitive market sellers need to make every effort for their properties to appear more attractive so they sell for more.
Believe it or [...]
February 27, 2010
- Getting Your House Ready to Sell
Getting Your House Ready to Sell
Getting your house ready to sell is not as easy as it may seem, especially if you have collected a lot of furniture and personal things over the years. It is also not a simple chore if the house looks cluttered, or if you have neglected to do any major [...]
January 27, 2010
- Selling a Home? Get an Accurate Appraisal First
Selling a Home? Get an Accurate Appraisal First
In an effort to save a few dollars in this down economy, many would-be-sellers today are turning to computer generated reports to establish the value of their property, rather than paying for a full appraisal. These sites use data that is collated from various resources to come up [...]
January 22, 2010
- The Best Time of the Year to Sell a Home
The Best Time of the Year to Sell a Home
Late spring and summer are usually thought of as the best times to put a home on the market because buyer demand builds steadily through spring. Sales then peak during the warmest months, when it's easiest for families to move without uprooting their children from school. [...]
January 21, 2010
- Sell Your Home Quickly in Any Market
Sell Your Home Quickly in Any Market
There are some things you can do to sell your home quickly in any market, here are 5 tips for selling your home.We welcome your comments, and remind you that email addresses will NEVER be published at our site, so comment without worrying about your email address showing up [...]
December 20, 2009
- Getting Your Home To Sell Quickly
Getting Your Home To Sell Quickly
The housing market has been hit hard during this recession. Homes in most every region of the country have lost a lot of value. Homes that used to sell quickly are sometimes on the market for months now. Sometimes they don’t sell at all.
So with it being a buyer’s market [...]
November 30, 2009
- Home Staging in a Down Market
Home Staging in a Down Market
Home staging is not a new concept, but home staging for a vacant home is a slightly newer idea.
Many would-be sellers who have, for one reason or another, found themselves having to vacate their home before finding a buyer, are often times finding it more difficult to sell an empty [...]
November 25, 2009
- Home Sellers: Rebuilding Equity Will Take Time
Home Sellers: Rebuilding Equity Will Take Time
After three years of slumping house prices, the end of the real estate bust may finally be in sight. Home sales are rising, inventories are shrinking, and most economists believe values nationwide will hit bottom in the second half of 2010 — but not before falling another 5% to [...]
September 19, 2009
- Selling Your Home: 5 Tips to Beat the Competition
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Selling Your Home: 5 Tips to Beat the Competition
Even though there are record numbers of homes on the market in most areas of the country, there are still ways to outshine others for sale. Assuming your home is priced correctly, here are five ways to lure home buyers to your [...]
July 15, 2009
- 5 Steps to a Quicker Home Sale
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5 Steps to a Quicker Home Sale
In a hurry to sell your home? Here's how to make sure you give yourself the opportunity to snag the best price in shortest amount of time.
1. You have to seriously undercut the competition - Selling a home in a down market almost inevitably [...]
May 21, 2009
- 7 Ways to Boost Your Home's Value
7 Ways to Boost Your Home's Value
If you’re putting your home up for sale, you may be wondering which improvements will maximize the value of your property. Here are some of the most cost-effective improvements you can make - giving you the most bang for your home-improvement buck!
1 - Refinishing your hard wood floor or [...]
May 8, 2009
- Buying and Selling a Home
Buying and Selling a Home
Buying and selling a home in this real estate market is not for the faint of heart!
In today’s fluctuating financial climate, there are many areas that one needs to examine before they buy or sell a home.
For instance, if you're thinking of buying a foreclosed house, you must ask not only [...]
April 13, 2009
- Selling a Home? What To Do Now
Selling a Home? What To Do Now
Call it the Great Housing Paralysis of 2009. If you're hoping to buy your first home or invest in a second one, you're probably sidelined, unsure when to jump in. If you want to sell, you're thinking it may be better to wait.
As you've heard countless times, you should [...]
February 15, 2009
- Finding the Right Real Estate Agent
Finding the Right Real Estate Agent
In much of the country, house sellers have gone from strutting to sulking. At the rate that homes were resold in January, it would take about eleven months to sell all the houses on the market. A year ago, there was less than a seven-month supply of houses for sale. [...]
December 19, 2008
- Home Staging: Get Help Selling Your House
Home Staging: Get Help Selling Your House
Home staging, a method of presenting a home in its best light in order to appeal to the broadest audience base, has gained recognition through several popular cable television programs such as "Designed to Sell" and "Sell This House." It can range from simply repainting walls to tearing them [...]
December 8, 2008
- Selling A Home During Christmas
Selling A Home During Christmas
If you want to try selling during the holiday season, here are a few tips:
The power of the nose is underestimated by many people. Smell is the first sense we develop and is deeply associated with food and emotion. A clean smell is great, as it does not cause negative [...]
November 17, 2008
- Home Prices Expected to Fall Even More
Home Prices Expected to Fall Even More
Home prices are down 20% nationwide since their peak in July 2006, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index. Economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University, who accurately predicted the housing slide and credit crisis, expects another 20% decline in home prices in the next year. Patrick Newport of [...]
