Phoenix | Scottsdale Real Estate

(picture courtesy of Home Building Assc. Grand Rapids) do I have your attention? Good! We have all seen the front page news, including such headlines as the USA Today this past Wednesday stating that the ” Housing Market gets uglier and uglier” ! So, you ask me, “why on should take the plunge into turbulent [...]

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One of the challenges the real estate market has before we can get some marked improvement is the reduction in the inventory of available homes listed for sale. However, that challenge is faced by the fact that most people who buy a new home (thus helping to reduce inventory) have a home to sell; and [...]

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The question I have been asked quite a bit lately from sellers is , “Should I Stage my house” in order to sell it at a better price and more quickly? Before I answer that question, you should know more about the A-B-C’s and 1-2-3′s of Home staging by Craig Schiller who is the Founder [...]

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A Short-Sale means asking your lender to accept less than the amount owed loan payoff in order to quickly sell your home, instead of the bank foreclosing on your home; saving them time and ultimately money. To learn more, read Jillayne Schlicke‘s article on short sales ; It is very informative. For those who want [...]

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Believe it or not; Homes are selling. Yes, it’s true. I will say it again. Homes are selling! No it’s not magic. It’s pricing your home right! How do you price your home to sell? you ask. Here are 10 tips to price and sell your home. Don’t price your home based upon the highest [...]

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I read many real estate mortgage related blogs on the internet. It is one of the best ways to get a variety of thoughts, ideas and opinions on what is happening on a grass roots level for the entire market, not just what is happening here in sunny Arizona and the many wonderful towns making [...]

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One of the largest, if not the largest growth areas on-line is the use of web sites for real estate searches for listings , local market statistics and demographic data, and home value estimates. The predominant sites are Zillow, Trulia , and Realtor.com. However, there are a multitude of other excellent resources including many local [...]

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Joel Burslem, Founder and author , of one of the best real estate blogs, Future of Real Estate Marketing.com , recently brought attention to , as he describes, a “pretty cool” new site called PolicyMap.com ; the site offers: over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and [...]

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