Although selling in a recovering market can be a challenging task, there are still steps sellers can take to entice buyers to bite. If you've already followed the usual protocol for staging and curb appeal, try the following:
Get a professional opinion. Knowing what a professional appraiser deems …
In early 2011, the Census Bureau released a statement noting that the national average for vacant homes in the U.S. rested at over 11 percent, placing more pressure on the housing market. Selling a vacant home is more difficult than selling a furnished one, in any market. A vacant home—regardless …
No one wants to pay more than its value regardless of the product. When you buy bananas for 49 cents a pound at one store and see them for 39 cents a pound at another store, it's not the ten cent difference as much as it is about overpaying.
…What's keeping you from taking advantage of the low prices and mortgage rates available today? Concerned that you may need to sell in a few years and won't be able to get your equity out of your home?
Suppose a buyer purchases a home and finds out that …
In one of the best buyer markets ever, sellers are not really doing much to encourage purchasers to act now.
Builders offer a variety of incentives such as upgrades, seller-paid closing costs, interest rate buy downs, washers, dryers, refrigerators or big screen TVs.
Interestingly, much …
A man was selling a property which was currently rented but had previously been his home for over two years. After discovering it had been rented for the last 2.5 years, it was asked if he had planned on taking the principal residences capital gain exclusion. He said …