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Showing Your House to Homebuyers
July 23, 2024
Showing the House
Your house should always be available for show, even though it may occasionally be inconvenient for you. Let your listing agent put a lock box in a convenient place to make it easy for other agents to show your home to homebuyers. Otherwise, agents will have to schedule appointments, which is an inconvenience. Most will just ...
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Single Women Buy Homes, Too!
July 22, 2024
Record numbers of single women are buying homes. If you're a single woman who wants to buy a house, the good news is the market is wide open for you. The stats from the Joint Center for Housing Studies say:
•More than one in five home buyers is a single woman.
•Twice as many unmarried women are buying homes than single men.
•Single women ...
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Disclosure: What Sellers Need to Know
July 21, 2024
States are cracking down on sellers' obligation to disclose known material facts about properties for sale—especially conditions not readily apparent, such as a cracked foundation. A material fact is anything that could affect the sale price or influence a buyer's decision to purchase a home.
The major cause of post-sale disputes and lawsuits ...
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THREE MUST HAVES
July 20, 2024
Keeping up with housing trends is never easy. But if you're selling your home, it will behoove you to take a look at new home designs. Your home may not have them all, but there are three items that might make or break the deal.
If your home is small, there are some tricks to increasing its visual size. Buyers want big homes and big rooms. ...
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Making an attractive home-purchase offer
July 18, 2024
It's easy to assume that negotiating is adversarial. You, the buyer, are on one side -- the side that wants to buy a property for the lowest price possible. The opposition on the other side is the seller who wants to sell for the highest price possible. You're locked in a tug of war to see which side will win.
It's more productive to look at a ...
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Preparing for Homeownership - Buyer's Guide
July 16, 2024
Before you begin your home search at REALTOR.com, prepare yourself by reading Ten Steps to Homeownership.
Homebuying Guides
Even before you begin looking for a home, the homebuying process requires diligent preparation. Buyers who have been preapproved for a home loan often have their offers taken more seriously by sellers. With advance ...
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Setting the Stage for a Successful Sale
July 15, 2024
What’s the best way to help your home make a glorious first impression on would-be buyers? Real estate experts agree that “staging” (also called “fluffing”) your home to show it in the most favorable light is well worth your time and effort.
Beyond the pre-sale cleaning and organizing you would expect to do, successful staging includes ...
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Real estate activity to cool as prices soar: Scotiabank
July 12, 2024
Last year’s comeback for Canada’s housing market will carry through early 2010 but subdued activity is on the horizon as higher prices and interest rates make property less affordable, Scotia Economics says.
In a new Scotiabank report entitled “Global Real Estate Trends” senior economist Adrienne Warren said she expects strong housing demand ...
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A quick, fair home sale
July 9, 2024
As the spring real-estate season approaches, there are a number of things you can do to improve your chances of selling your property at the best price and under the best terms.
- Choose the right agent: You want to see your house advertised weekly in the newspaper. The agent you're considering prefers to work his or her Rolodex. You expect to ...
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Two things to get a buyer's attention
June 29, 2024
Condition and price. Let's tackle these two issues and see what we can do to get you on your way.
Condition: Whether you have a modest home or a mansion, it's guaranteed to sit longer if it's not clean and de-cluttered. That's the basics. The problem is when your home has been on the market for a while, it's easy to fall back into old habits ...
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