January 18, 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. [...]
December 16, 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 29, 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 21, 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 23, 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 14, 2009
- 5 Steps to a Quicker Home Sale
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 means settling [...]
May 17, 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 13, 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 12, 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 [...]
March 2, 2009
- Selling a Home in a Bad Market
Selling a Home in a Bad Market
A bad real estate market is a huge challenge, particularly for sellers. You'll find that trying to sell your own home is like asking for a miracle cure-all. It can be frustrating and surprising but often, not in a good way. However, it's not entirely impossible to get someone [...]
February 14, 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 15, 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 4, 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 14, 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 [...]
October 27, 2008
- Selling Your Home: Will Anyone Want to Look?
Selling Your Home: Will Anyone Want to Look?
According to statistics, 80% of all new home buyers will use the Internet to check things out and then do a "drive by" on their own before ever contacting the seller or a real estate agent to see the house. Will anyone want to even see your home? [...]
September 26, 2008
- Selling Your Home? Watch the Pet Odor
Selling Your Home? Watch the Pet Odor
To some people, pets are like their children. For others however, they may be highly allergic and can't stand being around them. When it comes to selling your home, your pets odor, dander and hair, not to mention any damage they've done to the home, should be considered problems [...]
September 8, 2008
- Selling Your Home This Fall in a Buyer's Market
Selling Your Home This Fall in a Buyer's Market
Historically, the fall season brings on slower home sale activity. So how do you make your home the highlight of the house-hunt? While curb appeal is still very important, what you do on the inside of your home can be equally as powerful. Here are a few [...]
September 2, 2008
- Pricing Your Home in a Fall(en) Market
Pricing Your Home in a Fall(en) Market
It's not new news. Real estate markets everywhere have fallen. If you're trying to sell your home, or even thinking about putting your house on the market, pricing the home to sell quickly can be the trickiest part of all.
Our Money Editor, Stacy Johnson, has some advice on pricing [...]
July 19, 2008
- Selling Your House? Try Staging It
Selling Your House? Try Staging It
Staging a house can be the difference between its sitting or selling. Here are some findings and simple staging tips to help turn lookers into buyers at your next open house.
Studies have shown that staged homes sell quicker - sometimes up to 40% faster - than non-staged homes. Simply stated, [...]
May 9, 2008
- Pricing Your Home to Sell
Pricing Your Home to Sell
Pricing your home is one of the most important items when choosing to sell your home and doing this wrong can be a costly mistake. You have to consider more than just the price to do this properly. The condition of your home, average market time for your area, availability [...]
