Home Selling
Real Estate Contract Expiration: Now What?
Tweet Assuming that your home is in excellent shape, is priced correctly and is in a stable market, receiving a strong offer within the first month or two is normal.
Why Short Sales Take So Long (And Often Fail)
Tweet Waiting out a short sale is a lesson in endurance. Welcome to the world of real estate short sales, a process that can take months to resolve. And, one
A Budgetary Approach to Home Improvements
Tweet By Brian Simpson One of the more frustrating things about selling your home can be learning how much money you are expected to put into it to help it
How To Increase The Resale Value Of Your Home
Tweet By Andrew Salmon Selling your home can be hard enough from an emotional standpoint. Losing out on a top dollar selling price only adds insult to injury. However, taking
7 Tips For Selling Your Home Today
Tweet Today’s housing market is a tough one, but that doesn’t mean you can wait it out by not putting your home on the market. Sometimes a job change forces
Smart Tips To Help You Prepare Your Home For Sale
Tweet Spring is here and with the warmer weather comes a surge of homes available for sale. The 2010 market may be tempered a bit with some local markets still
Short Selling May Not Resolve Your Problems
Tweet Consumers seeking to save their homes from foreclosure and the resultant long term hit to their credit ratings will sometimes put their homes on the market and accept a
5 Homeowner Open House Strategies
Tweet If you’re a homeowner working with a real estate agent to sell your home, there are some things you can do make your open house successful, perhaps netting one
7 Tips For Pricing Your Home In Today’s Economy
Tweet Let’s face it: if you are a homeowner the current real estate market is a bummer, especially if you are planning to sell your home. Though the economy is
Home Values, Sales Retreat In August
Tweet Bad news on the housing front: after four consecutive months of gains, home sales dropped by 2.7% in August, while home values continued to fall reaching a national median
FHFA Records 0.3% Housing Price Increase
Tweet Consumers who have been waiting for the housing market to bottom out may have received a strong signal that home prices, indeed, are stabilizing. According to the Federal Housing
One In Four Sellers Reduce Their Asking Price
Tweet There was a time when a home was placed on the market and a bidding war broke out. Owners quickly discovered that buyers were willing to pay five, ten
How To Sell Your Home In A Lousy Market
Tweet You must be crazy if you’re thinking about selling your home right now! At least that is sentiment of some homeowners who see potential job loss, plunging home values
Real Estate Recovery Remains Spotty, Elusive
Tweet The housing market remains volatile, but signs of stability, even recovery are appearing in some markets while other areas remain stuck in a deep downturn. That’s the findings of
Nearly One In Four Homes For Sale Have Already Seen A Price Reduction
Tweet The current housing market continues to offer a good news/bad news scenario. First the good news: prices continue to drop. Now for the bad news: sellers are dropping their
