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Can The Internet Be Your Agent?

The number of consumers that go online each year to research at least a portion of a new home search is steadily growing year after year. As the internet gains an even bigger foothold in the United States, its use is likely to steadily grow and accomplish much of that growth in unexpected areas. One of those areas has been the selling of property online...


Your Showing: Beyond The Basics

Cleaning is perhaps the most crucial part of a successful showing. When communicating the value and uniqueness of your home, dirty clothes in the laundry room and stains in the carpet will cut you off at the knees every time. However, while most people think to clean a property and remove clutter from areas of the house, there are some ways that a seller can go the extra mile to interest a potential buyer...


The Science of Market Analysis

The key question most home sellers ask at the beginning of the home selling process is simple. How much is my home worth? Determining that value takes a comparison technique that matches up your home with others in your immediate area that have recently sold with similar amenities. Any real estate agent will first develop a market analysis for your home to provide that price and the evidence behind it...


Stay Ahead of the Curve: Proactive Selling

As with anything else in life, becoming proactive in your pursuit of a particular goal will ultimately pay off. Everyone has heard the stories of men and women that took the reigns of their career and were able to rise through the ranks of their profession to a position of power...


Is Your Home Sale Affected By Seasons?

Believe it or not, the answer is yes. The difference in selling a property in summer and selling it winter can go unnoticed by some sellers and some real estate agents, but there are some changes you can use to make your home show better in the winter than those that make no effort to change their strategy...


More Eyeballs, More Money

The process of selling your home can seem like a long process, but after you get through things like picking an agent, making any necessary repairs and pricing your property, you get to the most important stage of the process, actually selling the darn thing...


People As Your Real Estate Resource

Information about the real estate industry is all around us. Between local newspaper real estate sections and the thousands of real estate-related web sites on the Internet, there are more resources for real estate information now than ever before. However, as these sources grow, the time spent by some prospective buyers and sellers with actual people decreases...


Help Your Buyer Daydream

Getting your home ready for a potential sale can be a bit of a nerve wracking task. You have to clean your home immaculately, light it properly, make sure your fixtures sparkle and basically get your home in a condition that you would never live in just to have a stranger walk throughout your house...


Dress Up Your Home: Tips To Sell

Prospective home buyers are just like anyone else, they gravitate to what they can have a tangible connection with. Abstract teaching will always be harder to understand than concrete examples and real estate transactions are no different. When a home buyer walks in to a property, they want to feel at home and you can help that feeling grow...


The Return of the Auction?

With the housing market starting to slow up a bit in some areas of the country, sellers are using more tools at their disposal than ever to get a house sold in a timely fashion. While these methods vary greatly by region, nationally there has been a rise in the amount of real estate auctions seen. Naturally, auctions are not a new phenomenon, but to see them increasingly used as a primary tool in selling real estate is...


The Ultimate Selling Buzz Word: Curb Appeal

Chances are, in the mind of a potential buyer, your home is not the unique gem that you might think see it as. It can be hard to understand that, but most homes have a pretty basic structure that might change from home to home but does not vary greatly overall. If you are aiming at creating that elusive buzz word, curb appeal, understanding that and playing up the strengths you do have can help you tremendously...


Age From The Buyer’s Perspective

From your perspective, your home has grown with you over time, standing with you through all of the major milestones in your life and evolving with your own lifestyle. That evolution might be seen through the changes in the interior design of your home. It might be seen in a new addition or new renovation to the property...


The Value of a Closing Fee Free Deal

There are many things in life that include extra fees. Sales tax is added on to most purchases. Service fees are added on to credit card statements. In real estate, that extra fee is seen through closing costs and finding a deal that either mitigates or removes those closing fees from what you have to pay can be a great goal as you go through the home buying process...


Can A Simple Mineral Sell Your Home?

Though times and tastes have changed in what can help sell a piece of real estate, one of the current hot items is granite countertops. These countertops give your home a modern, updated feel and will often speak volumes to an interested buyer that you have put time and effort into updating your home. This, more than many other things you can do to a property, can increase a potential buyer’s likelihood to purchase your piece of real estate...


The Method Of Your Move

In the United States, many consumers are more than happy to pay for convenience. That can mean getting a bag of chips at a gas station or picking up some candy at the checkout, and indeed some people feel that way about moving. For an expensive premium, major moving companies will pack, move and unpack your goods to take the hassle completely out of what can be a draining moving experience...


Your Real Estate Double Agent

Choosing a real estate agent is perhaps one of the most critical parts of the real estate process as that agent will become your closest ally in the long term effort to buy or sell a home. Real estate transactions are major milestones in a person’s life and that real estate agent is the key person to be involved in making sure your wants and needs are met throughout that process...


The Weight Of Relocation

The excitement of a new job in a new city can be tempered by the daunting prospect of moving all of your worldly possessions. Any time you think of moving cross country for a job, the inevitable stress of relocation will seep in and that is certainly not fair during a time of joy over a new promotion or new opportunity. There are some ways to eliminate at least some of that stress. While moving is indeed a taxing experience, it doesn’t have to be a complete downer during what should be an exciting time...


Enhance Your Investment For Sale

There comes a time during the course of any real estate investment when it becomes clear that selling off the property is the best course. When that time comes, getting the most out of your piece of real estate is crucial to seeing the big payoff at the end of the real estate investment experience that you have been expecting over the course of the investment, often many years...


Do Your Moving Insurance Homework

Packing up all of your worldly possessions can be a daunting task. Hours of packing, taping, moving and storing can leave you drained and dreading the trip across the country or across the city to your new home. After all of the expended energy, seeing damage to your goods along the way could have the real ability to push you over the edge. As a way to protect yourself, moving insurance can be a great way to take some of the sting out of potential troubles along the way...


The Art of Negotiation

Feeling comfortable with a real estate transaction is the easiest way to ensure that you have a positive experience, whether it be as buyer or seller. Knowing what is going on and taking an active role in the proceedings o f your real estate transaction will give you the piece of mind necessary to erase some of the worry and doubt inherent to any real estate deal...


When Real Estate Lawyers Become Useful

Getting involved in a real estate transaction is truly a milestone in a person’s life, a process that takes thousands of dollars and sometimes months to complete. With something so complicated, there is certainly some merit to involving a lawyer in the proceedings...


Two Weeks Of Moving

There is a long build up towards finally getting a move ready into a new piece of real estate. Hours and hours of packing and organization comes down into a two week crunch time before moving day that entails final preparations for taking care of an old property and moving in to a new one...


Value In The Eyes Of The Beholder

Parting with a home can be an emotional experience that brings a lot of old thoughts and memories no matter if you lived there for a few months or a few years. As families get bigger, out-growing an old home is very common and we all know that when you have raised children in a home, there is an additional emotional attachment to the home...


Selling Your Life

The process of selling your home can seem like you are doing nothing more than getting rid of the wood, stone and metal that has surrounded you for a period of time. In reality, selling your home is much more than that and in any real estate transaction, many more factors come into play that aren’t covered solely by the materials used in your home...


Strangers in Your Home: The Open House

The very concept of an open house outwardly looks like an odd one. Strangers are openly invited into your home, allowed and even encouraged to investigate each and every nook and cranny all while openly discussing the tangible worth of perhaps your most important possession. They can be difficult to prepare for and through all of the people that funnel in and out of your home, only a handful may end up actually interested in the home...


Importance Of Being Earnest (Money)

Every real estate transaction has a series of steps along the process to get buyer and seller together for a successful purchase. Articles have and will be written about each of these little steps along the way and earnest money is one of those steps that can seem like a strange practice to go through but makes sense when explained...


Don't Dread Moving Day

Moving day can be an arduous, time-consuming, back-breaking endeavor. Even with the exciting prospect of living in a new place, moving can initially overshadow that excitement and turn what should be a fun, thrilling experience into an all-day war of attrition with boxes and moving supplies. Moving certainly does not have to be like that and with a few of these time-saving tips, you may even have time to enjoy your new piece of real estate...


Avoid The Selling Strong Arm

As EBay and any slew of online auction houses have taught most of America, prices skyrocket when two people bid against each other. Indeed, this has been one of the core tenets of selling probably since the beginning of time and the real estate industry has made significant work of that trait in trying to squeeze as much as possible out of a home...


The Full Blitz Marketing Checklist

In real estate, just as in other walks of life, there are times when an aggressive strategy is called for and times when a more passive strategy is the appropriate tactic. For home sales, there are sale properties put up for sale in brisk-moving market areas where an aggressive campaign is unnecessary and perhaps detrimental to selling a home...


Setting The Perfect Price

Pricing a home is perhaps one of the most controversial steps to the real estate process and can often become a point of contention between home owner and realtor. The difference between the time and money you’ve poured into your home and what the market says you home’s value is may be far apart in your mind and that can lead to a lot of confusion and hurt feelings...


The Power of Real Estate Competition

To say that competition defines the value of homes is a bit short-sighted, though it does impact the price you will see for your home. The only thing that can define the value of any piece of real estate is a buyer willing to pay for it, but the market and the competition seen within the market can give a prospective buyer a framework to derive a value from...


The True Derivative of Your Home’s Value

Pricing your home is sometimes seen as a way of finding out just what your home is worth. While you may end up getting the price you set for your property, the only person that has any say over what your home is worth is the buyer that eventually goes through with it and purchases your property...


Pick The Right Real Estate Attorney

For many buyers and sellers, a real estate agent is all that is needed to get through the buying or selling real estate process. A real estate agent can provide valuable advice on the current state of the market, the best way to stage your home for sale or good areas to look at when investigating a home purchase...


Comparative Market Analysis

Home pricing is the most important factor to consider in order to sell your home quickly and easily. The usual mistake the seller's make is that their asking price is way too high. You cannot fool the market. It is best to price your home right because if you overprice it and it stays in the market for a long time, buyers will lose interest, thinking that it has not sold because something is wrong with it, or other homes in your area similar to yours may be selling at a more realistic...


Real Estate Vocabulary ~ Who Are The Players

When beginning a new venture, there is always a new language to learn. In real estate knowing the right language can be the difference between making good choices, and having serious problems down the road. To help buyers and sellers get on the right track, here are a few key words so you, too, can tell the different between real estate personnel...