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Pricing a home requires a higher level of objective analysis than most of us use on a daily basis. Sellers have to be able to tune out their memories attached to the home and their dreams for the future, while tuning in to the chaotic real estate market and the details of their home that […]

Technological advance is pushing the real estate market to evolve. The emergence of online real estate auctions in the residential sector is evidence of that evolution. The technology to support these auctions has long been in place, although it has historically been used by the commercial real estate sector. Now, buyers and sellers of residential […]

We’ve all heard of buyer’s and seller’s markets. During a seller’s market, you can expect to rake in top-dollar for your home, but during a buyer’s market, you are more likely to go out with a whimper. Right? Actually, your home’s worth is much more nuanced than the status of the real estate market. Here […]

Homes are like ecosystems: they are made up of dozens of distinct yet deeply interconnected parts. From the foundation grows a jungle-like wooden frame. Electric vines wrap around the frame, and the plumbing system moves in rivers and waterfalls behind your walls. Above the frame is your roof, the forest canopy, and circulating through this […]

Buying a house is not just a transaction between the seller and the buyer; multitudes of outside parties are also hitched to the deal: real estate agents, inspectors, attorneys, loan companies and even the federal government. Orchestrating a transaction that involves so many parties requires a mountain of paperwork, so it’s important for you, as […]

“Love at first sight” is as common a phenomenon in the real estate world as the dating arena, but as any dating guru would tell you, love at first does not guarantee a healthy long term relationship. Buying a home is a long-term commitment. Although it may be difficult to override an initial attraction to […]

Being crunched for time mounts the pressure in any situation. When you add in high financial stakes, inconvenience in your living space, and the need to impress, the process to sell your home under a time constraint can easily test nerves of steel. Luckily, there are a few measures you can take to ensure that […]

House hunting can lead to a precarious emotional state. The prospective homebuyer walks around with a head full of dreams and eyes longing to find that dream-come-true. At the same time, the same prospective buyer is terrified of making a mistake that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and is paranoid of being misled […]

Buying a home is a huge milestone in life, and the desire to rush towards milestones is natural; especially when that milestone is a quaint, two-story Victorian with a white picket fence—and we think we have it in our sights. Still, the home buying process is more obstacle course than race. Navigating the process successfully […]

Home appraisals are a critical, high-stakes part of the home buying process. Because they come near the end of the process, home appraisals often determine whether or not buyers will make it into a home to which they’ve already become attached. Lenders base their mortgages on home appraisal value, not on the seller’s price. When […]