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This Weekend is “National Open House Weekend”
For Sale Signs are popping up like tulips and National Open House Weekend is This Saturday and Sunday. Every home seller should take advantage of the tremendous amount of buyer traffic that will be on the street this weekend. The Realtors Association is doing the advertising for you. Don’t pass up the opportunity to show off your [...]
Reminder: Tax Credit Deadline April 30, 2010
The following is an excerpt from an article on Zillow.com about the tax credit deadline. If you are selling your own house, don’t forget to have information available for your prospective buyers on why this is a great time for them to buy your house! “In what has been urged as a must-have by real [...]
Fair Housing and Martin Luther King Day
It seems fitting to talk about fair housing on a day designed to honor Martin Luther King Jr., because the civil-rights activist was acutely aware of the way bricks and mortar could be used to separate people based on race. On August 5, 1966, he joined marchers protesting against housing segregation in Chicago. The Chicago [...]
Another Big Gain in Existing-Home Sales
Existing-home sales rose again in November as first-time buyers rushed to close sales before the original Nov. 30 deadline for the recently extended and expanded tax credit, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. Existing homes sales – including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – rose 7.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of [...]
Number of October Home Sales Up 10.1% from September
WASHINGTON – Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit. Home sales nationwide are now up nearly 36 percent from their bottom in January, data Monday showed, though they are [...]
Both Houses OK Tax Credit Extension
I’m delighted to pass along some great news if you are trying to sell your own house! Especially if you think your home might appeal to first time buyers. And remember what I’ve taught you in “The Truth About FSBO” – contact a mortgage broker who will put together some FSBO marketing materials for you [...]
NAR Lauds Extension of Higher Loan Limits
The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® thanked Congress for speedy action in passing a congressional resolution yesterday that would extend the current higher Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA loan limits through 2010. The present loan limits would expire at the end of 2009 and revert to previous lower limits. “NAR commends both houses of Congress [...]
Change is Hard But Change is Good
“Change is good for the consumer and for the real estate industry. It fuels competition and drives innovation and efficiency. Yet, the real estate industry has seen little change during the last 50 years. Indeed, other than marginally lower commissions as a result of the introduction of “discount brokerage models,” the change is imperceptible. Will [...]
Some People Don’t Know You Can Sell Your Own House!
I read today on ForSaleByOwner.com ‘s blog, that many consumers are mislead to believe there is some special law or policy which states they have to use an agent during the buying and selling process! Information used to be totally controlled by agents which lead people to believe they had to work with them. About [...]
A Surprising FSBO Selling Statistic You Need to Know
Ironically, I read this surprising statistic in two different places in the last week, plus my sister-in-law confirmed it with her real life experience this weekend! So synchronicity is at work here to make sure I get this important message to you. So here we go: “One out of three for sale by owner sellers [...]
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