We have written many columns about home inspections and the high hurdle they present in getting a home sale to settlement. Sometimes buyers are unwilling to tolerate even the smallest flaws in a property’s condition, a home inspector might inflate ...

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With computers and other giant leaps forward in technology, our ability to measure things has grown exponentially. Atomic clocks keep track of time down to the last millisecond. Want to know how far away the moon is from your backyard, ...

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There are many factors that go into selling real estate, but one of the most important is an honest, objective determination of what a property is really worth. Without an accurate understanding of what that number is, it’s not possible ...

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Every once and a while, there isn’t one singular topic we think is important, but rather there are a variety of issues that you need to know about with respect to buying and selling homes. This is one of those ...

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When it gets to be around the holiday time, we like to take a break from the numbers, charts and deep dive we usually take on the Realities of Real Estate, and look to the softer side of buying and ...

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Earlier this month we took a trip to Aruba. Although it’s been quite a while since our last trip to the islands, in that the luxury of such trips tend to follow the ups and downs of the real estate ...

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In past columns, we’ve talked a lot about the financial advantages of home ownership. Even with the massive swings we’ve seen for real estate, home ownership, over time, remains one of the most secure ways to build long term wealth. ...

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It has been almost a decade since the housing bubble burst, but ever so slowly, we’re beginning to recover. Even so, the magnitude of this financial catastrophe was such that it fundamentally changed how people look at housing. For a ...

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Whenever we’re out and about, people who know us from the paper, or recognize the Champion Realty ball caps we wear to work around the house, always have the same question: “How’s the market?”

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We’ve all heard the phrase “caveat emptor,” which is Latin for “Let the buyer beware.” According to Wikipedia, “The phrase caveat emptor arises from the fact that buyers often have less information about the good or service they are purchasing, while the seller has more information.

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