September 29, 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 5, 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 3, 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 24, 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 12, 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 [...]
April 27, 2008
- Selling Your Home: Presentation is Everything
Selling Your Home: Presentation is Everything
In today's more challenging real estate market, selling your home becomes even more of a challenge. With more and more homes on the market, how you present your home is key.
Uncluttered homes; spacious, clean and organized; bright and open is the desired look these days. Homebuyers are looking for a [...]
April 24, 2008
- Selling a House: Make Your Home Stand Out
Selling a House: Make Your Home Stand Out
In today's market and the increased choices buyers have when shopping for a home, one of the most important factors you need to consider (other than price of course) when getting your home ready to sell is the condition of the home.
Condition reigns supreme over all else. Buyers [...]
March 31, 2008
- Closing Escrow: What Does it Really Mean?
Closing Escrow: What Does it Really Mean?
Escrow is a written agreement between the seller and buyer of a property. The moment escrow comes into existence, a third party person, known as an escrow holder, comes into existence. An escrow holder is liable for all the activities executed by both the parties for the purpose of [...]
March 28, 2008
- How to Sell Your Home in 5 Days
How to Sell Your Home in 5 Days
How to sell your home fast using real estate auctions; This CNN report describes how to sell your home fast with the 5 Day Sale Method.
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March 13, 2008
- Four Pricing Tricks to Help Sell Your Home Faster
Four Pricing Tricks to Help Sell Your Home Faster
Americans are constantly buying stuff. But most of us don't do a whole lot of selling — which means we don't have much experience at setting prices.
Want to improve your odds of finding a buyer for your home? As you try to unload your property, consider these [...]
March 11, 2008
- Why Use A Real Estate Agent?
Why Use A Real Estate Agent?
In an effort to avoid paying commissions to a real estate agent, many people opt for the for sale by owner (FSBO) route. While this may seem like an enticing option for most homeowners, the reality can be much darker.
Real estate is fraught with legal complications. Buying and selling [...]
February 10, 2008
- Selling Your Home? First Impressions Do Count
Selling Your Home? First Impressions Do Count
The first impression your property makes on potential buyers is vital to the success in selling your house, so it is important to make the buyer's first impression of it count.
Of utmost importance will be the visual aspects of your home, especially the front yard and the entrance [...]
February 7, 2008
- Warning to Sellers: Don't Overdo!
Warning to Sellers: Don't Overdo!
With the housing market continuing to weaken, many sellers are going beyond the usual cleaning, painting and "staging" with flowers and pillows, by taking on big-ticket projects.
Some experts warn that sellers are unlikely to get their money back from extensive renovations. But owners often feel they have no choice if they [...]
January 23, 2008
- Pricing Your Home
Pricing Your Home
Even though we're smack dab in the middle of Winter, Spring time is just around the corner. And Spring is the time of year when the weather begins to change…and many homeowners begin to think about changing houses. If you're going to be selling a home this coming Spring, here's some advice on [...]
January 18, 2008
- Opportunities Abound to Profit in 2008
Opportunities Abound to Profit in 2008
Tumbling home values. Soaring energy prices. A topsy-turvy stock market and a gazillion other financial worries, not the least of which is whether we'll spend the coming year mired in recession.
Considering all the black clouds hanging over the economy, you probably think there's no way you can really expect to [...]
January 16, 2008
- Some Home Improvements Are Worth Skipping
Some Home Improvements Are Worth Skipping
Homeowners aren't recouping as many improvement costs as they could in recent years, according to a recent study by Remodeling magazine. In fact, real-estate agents advise clients not to overdo it, regardless of what the local market conditions are like.
To keep costs down and spend remodeling dollars wisely, consider the [...]
January 11, 2008
- Selling a Home - Hiring a Realtor
Selling a Home - Hiring a Realtor
Selling a home in most places is a lot harder today than it was a few years ago… which means getting the best possible help.
Money Talk Editor Stacy Johnson takes a look at some things you need to ask.
Have a comment or question that Stacy didn't cover? Post it [...]
December 11, 2007
- How to Determine a Home's Value
How to Determine a Home's Value
Property values are falling in many markets, balancing out some inflated markets and making home values a little more realistic. This has some sellers worried. While they might not make as much money on a sale now as they would have a year or two ago, it doesn't mean the [...]
December 8, 2007
- Staging the Exterior of Your Home
Staging the Exterior of Your Home
Before you hang the "for sale" sign in your yard, find out how to make the exterior of your home attractive to potential buyers. Click twice on the video to start, once to stop. (Video 2:59)
If you have more questions or comments about staging the exterior ot your house for [...]
December 6, 2007
- Attention Home Sellers: Open House Alert
Attention Home Sellers: Open House Alert
For homeowners planning their first open house: Hire a cleaning service. Drop the pets off with a neighbor. And lock up your valuables! You never know who may be stopping by.
Even with home sales slumping across the country, the industry still looks to open houses to lure a maximum number [...]
