Category Archives: Learn
What Makes a Home Architecturally Significant?
Architecturally significant homes are treasures that draw admiration generation after generation. They are usually one of two types of homes. The first is the work of ground-breaking architects, if you’ll pardon the pun, who push the limits of new design … Continue reading
Agents Still Outperform the Internet, Say Buyers
The more technologically advanced home buying becomes, the more it remains the same. According to the 2009 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers from the National Association of REALTORS®, home buyers find real estate agents as the most useful information … Continue reading
Springtime Home Buyers Have Incentives to Hurry
With more than 10.4 million people planning to buy a home in 2009, according to Scarborough Research’s 2009 Multi-market Study, a little less than half followed through with their plans. Some failed to sell their current homes or meet stricter … Continue reading
First-time Home Buyers Dominate the Market
In some areas of the country, housing is selling like hotcakes, driven higher by the first-time home buyer segment of the market. Typically, first-time home buyers average about 40% of all home buyers, but in 2009, they composed an unprecedented … Continue reading
Attract Serious Buyers and Discourage Lookie Lous
It goes without saying that you and your real estate professional want to attract serious home buyers, but your marketing may attract buyers who can’t qualify to buy your home and Lookie Lous. Serious buyers want to find a home. … Continue reading
How to Negotiate with Buyers
Sellers today have to do more to attract buyers and offers than ever before. When offers come in, sometimes they are low or have conditions that have to be negotiated. As a seller, you can be proactive before the offers … Continue reading
The Dealkillers – Dark, Cluttered and Dank
As a seller, you may be so used to living in your home that you may not realize that its condition is putting buyers off. For example, you may love dogs so much that you’re immune to how much their … Continue reading
How-to’s: Understanding Your Credit Scores
When you apply for a mortgage loan, one of the first things your lender will do is check your credit history, but they don’t read through your credit reports page by page. They get a snapshot of your credit called … Continue reading
How-to’s: Should You Have An Open House?
Since MLS* listings began being featured online around 1996, the transparency of homes for sale has improved exponentially. Through the use of multiple photos, 360-degree virtual tours, and video, home buyers can go inside each home virtually with all the convenience of … Continue reading
