Home Selling Tips

December 22, 2008

  • Home Staging: Get Help Selling Your House

    Home Staging: Get Help Selling Your House
    Home staging, a method of presenting a home in its best light in order to appeal to the broadest audience base, has gained recognition through several popular cable television programs such as "Designed to Sell" and "Sell This House." It can range from simply repainting walls to tearing them [...]

December 11, 2008

  • Selling A Home During Christmas

    Selling A Home During Christmas
    If you want to try selling during the holiday season, here are a few tips:
    The power of the nose is underestimated by many people. Smell is the first sense we develop and is deeply associated with food and emotion. A clean smell is great, as it does not cause negative [...]

November 9, 2008

  • Home Prices Expected to Fall Even More

    Home Prices Expected to Fall Even More
    Home prices are down 20% nationwide since their peak in July 2006, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index. Economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University, who accurately predicted the housing slide and credit crisis, expects another 20% decline in home prices in the next year. Patrick Newport of [...]

October 22, 2008

  • Selling Your Home: Will Anyone Want to Look?

    Selling Your Home: Will Anyone Want to Look?
    According to statistics, 80% of all new home buyers will use the Internet to check things out and then do a "drive by" on their own before ever contacting the seller or a real estate agent to see the house. Will anyone want to even see your home? [...]

October 4, 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 9, 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 [...]

September 4, 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 [...]

July 21, 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 16, 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 [...]

May 4, 2008

  • Selling Your Home: Presentation is Everything

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April 14, 2008

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March 25, 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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    Leave us your comments or thoughts by clicking the "comment" link below.  Your name and email address are required to [...]

March 19, 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 17, 2008

February 16, 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 13, 2008

January 24, 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 22, 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 19, 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 [...]

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