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We have been discussing the three P’s of real estate marketing — price, positioning and presentation. This week, we’ll tackle the topic of positioning.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: How to tag your home with right price
When we put a house on the market, there are three considerations that must be effectively coordinated to maximize the chances of a successful sale — price, positioning and presentation.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate | Inspect this idea: Every house ‘as is’
Ask just about any agent, and they’ll tell you the toughest part of getting a contract to settlement is the home inspection. Nearly every transaction involves some sort of inspection. In fact, we can’t even remember the last time we had a sale where there wasn’t one.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: Key components in a Contract of Sale
When a buyer is making an offer, or a seller is reviewing one that has been received, everyone puts the focus on page one. That’s the place where you’ll find the offering price, as well as the date of settlement, two key components that are clearly a big part of making the deal.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: Checking market halftime score
It’s hard to believe, but 2014 is half over. Before you know it, the Baltimore Ravens will be back on the field.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: Types of home loans
When someone buys a home, they can either pay cash or finance the purchase. Increasingly, people are paying cash.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: Evaluating home values
One of our readers recently called with a question about the difference between her home’s assessed value and a recent appraisal.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: The pause that softens real estate market
Especially in this area, real estate has been showing a fairly steady recovery for quite some time now. Since the bubble burst, we’ve gotten back on track with improving prices, a fairly significant reduction in the average time it takes to sell a house and an overall stabilization of the market with trends returning to historical patterns.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: With maintenance, don’t get in a fix
There are many benefits associated with home ownership; but along with those benefits, we also assume a whole host of responsibilities.
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Read More »Realities of Real Estate: Remember, house is a home
People buy homes for all sorts of reasons, and what’s important to them in a house can vary substantially from one buyer to the next. Furthermore, what we need in a home and the property characteristics buyers rate as important can change depending on an individual’s stage in life, as well as over overall economic conditions and how one sees the future unfolding.
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