Tag Archives: Selling your Home
School ratings and real estate
Source: NPR It's well known in the real estate industry that highly rated schools translate into higher housing values. Several studies confirm this and even put a dollar figure on it: an average premium of $50 a square foot, in a 2013 national...
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Why So Many New U.S. Homes Are Supersized A bigger share of new homes sold in 2015 were 4,000 square feet or more compared with before the recession. But that could...
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Summer housing market not cooling down this fall
Source: Housing Wire The summer housing market saw high demand next to rising home prices, but don’t expect fall to bring any relief. In fact, it could bring the hottest fall in a decade, new data from realtor.com...
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5 Reasons home sellers are sitting on the fence
Source: Washington Post The National Association of REALTORS® said that existing home sales are declining because there’s a paucity of homes for sale now and that “severely restrained inventory” and affordability pressures are the primary...
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Five California cities rank in top 10 hottest markets for real...
Source: Realtor.com In a preliminary analysis by Realtor.com, five California cities are moving off the market two percent more quickly than this time last year, and prices are hitting new record highs. Vallejo, Calif., remains number on the list...
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Buyers say they’re willing to pay extra for ‘smart’ homes
Source: Washington Post A study by Coldwell Banker found that 71 percent of buyers in a sample of 1,250 American adults want a “move-in ready” house and that 57 percent of those buyers looking at older houses would consider them updated –...
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