If you are in the market to buy a home, there’s a resource available that’s often under used – a buyers real estate agent. If you really want to save a lot of time, you can leave all the hard work to that real estate agent, and then just sit back and get on with [...]
If you have been trying to sell your home for several months, you’re not the only one. It’s a competitive market and home buyers are looking for homes that they feel are ‘perfect’ for their needs. That term ‘perfect’ is the one that is most difficult to determine, however, there are several areas that home [...]
House hunting can be a lot of fun. Rather than arming yourself with a high powered weapon and trekking the mountain slopes, your can sit back in comfort at home armed with nothing more than a computer hooked to the Internet. Finding a home is child’s play today – search a database like the MLS [...]
Which came first? There is a lot of debate around at present related to home prices with some claiming the problems is with home buyers – there are not enough of them; while others blame home sellers – there are too many homes on the market. There’s no doubt there are a lot of distressed [...]
The second biggest group of home buyers (behind investors) in the market today are, believe it or not, single females. They make up 20% of all sales at present. Single males make up 12%. Both still way behind investors at 32%. Other groups include couples with no children, families, and retirees. For home sellers, there [...]
Can you imagine trying to move house from one side of the country to the other twenty years ago? There was no MLS to preview possible homes to buy, there was no internet to help you find mortgages, or information on potential areas to move to. The only option back then was to personally visit [...]
Dedicated real estate search portals are great. You can sit back in the comfort of your current home and search until you find the perfect home – price, location, and style included. Search engines do, however, only show the glossy side of homes for sale. The not-so-glossy side is something that you may have to [...]
Home sellers often get excited when their agent calls to let them know there is a buyer interested in viewing their home. The longer the home has been on the market, the greater the chance that excitement is tinged with relief as well. Sellers often go into overdrive to ready the home for that all [...]
An interesting article in a recent edition of the Spokesman-Review discusses the use of smart phones and QR Codes. What’s a QR Code? While you’ll read a lot of hype about these codes, they are not new having been invented back in 1994 and used in manufacturing to track parts. The code is about the [...]
One of the worst things a home buyer can do is rush the task. This happens a lot in today’s environment. They put their home on the market expecting it to take months to sell so they are very casual about finding their new home. Time is an important issue in today’s world as well [...]
Why is it that some real estate properties sell quickly while others languish for months with hardly an ounce of interest from buyers? We could blame a lot of factors: a real estate agent that isn’t doing their job; a price that is too high; and perhaps a poorly presented property. While these issues are [...]
The constant forward rush of new technology is driving real estate customers to search for the home they want directly from the internet, favoring it over newspapers and listing books. In fact, it is not surprising that more than 85% of home buyers use the internet to search for the property that best meets their [...]
Real estate has changed dramatically over the years, and the internet has made some of the biggest and most unexpected changes happen. The Multiple Listings Service, or MLS, has been one of the best changes for the person looking to purchase real estate. Using the MLS, a consumer can search real estate for sale from [...]
Buying a home is one of those areas in modern society where you can almost do everything online. If not online then by cell phone. Now we have the addition of the iPad and I’m sure it won’t be long before that becomes a popular tool as well. Despite all this technology, the human touch [...]
Having a real estate that is available at any time can be reassuring to both sellers and buyers. You would be surprised how many times someone suddenly has a panic attack when they don’t know the answer to a simple question regarding the sale or purchase of real estate. I don’t necessarily encourage you to [...]
