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Disparate Reports Indicate Strengthening New Homes Market
Local homeowners don’t have to be planning to sell anytime soon to be curious about the market value of their property. A home is such a major part of any family’s financial picture, it’s only natural....
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For Sale by Owner Offerings Face Hurdles
In the business publishing world, one of the most reliable bestseller categories is Marketing and Sales: How to Sell This, or Tips for Selling That. Selling may be a complicated business, but one...
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Time, Tide, and Today’s Real Estate Market
When it comes to residential real estate outlook, some truisms say it all: “Strike while the iron is hot!” “The early bird gets the worm!” “Time and tide waits for no man…” Sometimes those hoary old...
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National Price Uptick Brings Smiles to Homeowners
For local homeowners watching property values rise and fall, surprises aren’t necessarily welcome. Surprises come in two flavors where real estate is concerned (and the previous decade certainly...
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Mortgage Rates Up: Mortgage Applications Down!
For area homeowners and soon-to-be homeowners, it looks like the end for deeply depressed mortgage rates. Nationally, rising rates have temporarily created a downdraft in home loan applications....
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Real Estate Listings Hint Return of McMansions
Last week’s jobs report met familiar disagreement about the progress of the nation’s economic recovery: more new jobs, yes; too many of them part-time: yes; economy improving: sort of; enough? barely—...
View ArticleWhy we do what we do
The Coldwell Banker Brand Promise… this video does a great job of explaining why we do what we do. We don’t just help clients buy and sell homes, we help them build a more fulfilling life. Its a...
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Two Culprits That Make Selling Your Home Tougher
Whenever a home lingers on the market, the likeliest two culprits are either a price that’s too high to be competitive, or a home that’s not in top showing condition. If you were unsuccessful in...
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Rise in Real Estate Prices Slows — and That’s Good News!
The future of real estate prices in town is always a matter of keen interest to area homeowners. So it’s important when the latest national numbers in the Case-Shiller Index show that the rate of rise...
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Tradeoffs to Consider When Getting a Mortgage
A vital part of buying a home is getting a mortgage. But not all mortgages are the same. There are two general classes of mortgages; fixed rate mortgages keep the same interest rate for the full...
View ArticleHouse Hunting by Zip Code Can Yield Surprises
If you ask anyone doing serious house hunting how they are going about it, there are few who won’t point to the web (nationally, 88% use it) as at least one of the top two most useful tools (their...
View ArticleOff and Off: Real Estate Vocabulary Has Both
Real estate listings consist of the lineup of homes that are currently “on the market.” They’re for sale. Offered to buyers. Available for purchase. “On the market” is a straightforward real estate...
View ArticleHomeowners Prepare for an El Niño Winter
With fall newly arrived, it’s a time of year when homeowners can breathe a sigh of relief; relax and take it easy. With summer behind us, most gardens require less attention. The demands harsh winter...
View ArticleReal Estate Market News is Upbeat, Downbeat (and Sideways)
At the beginning of any month, onlookers can find batches of fresh reports about national real estate market activity. Take October, for instance. We’ve just learned a bunch about what happened across...
View ArticleReverse Mortgage Candidates Cautioned to Seek Advice
Whenever the words “reverse mortgage” are uttered, any TV viewer immediately makes the connection with one of several celebrity spokesmen who blanket the airwaves with commercials touting the concept....
View ArticleLocal Real Estate Observers Greeted with Multiple Surges
If you are a real estate observer, last week was the time of month when you typically look for the major data releases which detail how residential sales and prices performed in the previous month....
View ArticleSelling a House Can Take a little ‘Plastic Surgery’
Suppose you finally came to an important decision—that this fall is going to be the right time for selling your house. If you had been biding your time, watching other houses being listed and closed...
View ArticleAgent Investigates Home Prices ‘Starting at $115 Million’
I’ll admit it: the tease was irresistible. There was no good reason why I should take the time to read on, even though it was near the top of the Wall Street Journal’s Real Estate section. This was not...
View ArticleReal Estate Listings are the Backbone of an Industry
The first stop for anyone looking for a new home or for anyone who is even mildly curious about what properties are currently available—is real estate listings. Like those you find here on my site,...
View ArticleMortgage Rate Jolt: Just a Wakeup Call?
There’s a reason that home loan providers sometimes choose to lead their ads with a ‘lock’ provision. They know that potential clients likely to be enticed by low mortgage rate numbers are fairly...
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