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Selling your home and homeschooling can both be stressful individually, but combined? My goodness, it can be rough.
With the kids home from school and parents working from home due to the novel coronavirus, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The good news is that we have 5 tips to make it a little bit easier!
You'll have to make adjustments to your home, but also to your homeschool routine during the time your house is on the market. It will not only help you with the logistics of showing your home...
You found your dream home! But so did someone else...
A seldom-discussed phenomenon often occurs when a homebuyer decides to write a purchase offer. Maybe you've been house-hunting for weeks and you notice that one home has been for sale for almost six months without any offers. You figure it's overpriced—and you might be right. But you go look at it anyway and you fall in love.
You figure you can get a great price because the seller is undoubtedly desperate for an offer. This is your lucky d...
The housing market is back—and then some.
Despite the crippling and ongoing coronavirus pandemic, millions out of work, a recession, and national protests, the residential real estate market is staging an astonishing rebound. Median home prices shot up 6.2% year over year on realtor.com® in the week ending June 27, according to weekly realtor.com data. Homes are selling faster than they did in 2019, when no one had heard of COVID-19. And bidding wars are back as first-time and trade-up buyers...
Homes with high curb appeal tend to sell for an average of 7% more than similar houses with an uninviting exterior, according to a joint study by the University of Alabama and the University of Texas at Arlington. Further, the premium rises to as high as 14% in slower real estate markets with greater housing inventory, shows the study, which was published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.
Researchers examined Google Street View photos and sales data from 88,980 properties in...
The beginning of the new year is the perfect time to start planning for home projects. Maintenance projects are a great way to keep your space comfortable, functional and possibly add value to your home. Not all projects are boring chores. Adding new space to your kitchen or sprucing up your décor can be fun and rewarding. Here are a few new year’s resolutions for your home.
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Increase square footage
When it comes to increasing the value of your home, a...
Once real estate’s sleepiest month, January could be this year’s home-buying hot season, according to new data. That’s a status historically reserved for April.
Homebuyers are shopping earlier in the year, a trend that began in 2015. Last year, listing views peaked in February: If the trend continues in 2020, January could be the most competitive month for home shoppers, according to economists.
“It turns out that buyers who want to get a leg up on the spring shopping season have to start a lo...
