You may be aware that you can avoid capital gains taxes on the sale of your home if it was your primary residence for at least two of the five years prior to its sale. [...]
Today's real estate market provides an excellent opportunity for renters to turn their monthly payments into equity. While rising slightly, interest rates now are still much lower than in the past ten to twenty years, [...]
Sellers are competing for buyers these days. Actually, sellers are always competing against each other, trying to offer the best value in hopes of securing a full-price offer. Such offers usually come to sellers whose [...]
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Are you among the college graduates who have moved back home this year? Don't sweat it, because you're not alone. About 48% of the class of 2006 is estimated to have returned home, and with [...]
Getting ready to place your home on the market? If it is in anything less than "like new" condition, you'll need a little reality check before you can determine a fair asking price. Since buyers [...]
"Buyers market." "Sellers market." What does it all mean when you find yourself ready to buy or sell a home? The basic concept behind a "buyers market" is that there are more houses or residential [...]
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! There’s no doubt that the real estate marketplace is settling down from its breakneck pace of the last few years. There’s also speculation that the real estate "bubble" is going [...]
Although the "real estate bubble" has yet to burst, a lot of markets are finally experiencing an "adjustment" of sorts, especially as interest rates slowly creep up and buyers are fewer and farther between. Any [...]
Like the question of the chicken and the egg, homeowners planning to buy a new home must ask, “Which comes first?” Do you sell first, and then look frantically for the new home, or buy [...]
Regardless of conditions in the real estate market, first-time buyers will always be a driving force for home sales. As a seller, there are a few steps you can take to make your home (especially [...]
You might assume that the fewer credit cards you have, the higher your credit score could be. Because of that assumption, some buyers preparing to apply for a home loan mistakenly cancel one or more [...]
