Most Recent Articles in Real Estate category

  • Selling Your Home: Make a Drive-By a Must Buy! - By: Justin Havre
    You may think that selling a house is all down to photos and web sites these days, but you would be surprised to know how many prospective buyers will have their own 'drive-by' before they ask an agent about your home.
  • Have Your Buyer at Hello: First Impressions and Entranceways - By: Justin Havre
    Do you know that realtors think that four out of five prospective buyers are put off from buying a property in the first minute? It is worth investigating this fact, if now is the time that you are planning to list your house.
  • Celebrating Halloween While Trying To Sell Your House - By: Lisa Gray
    If you are setting up your house for a party or trick-or-treating, do it the day of the event, if at all possible, and try to avoid having a showing that day. If your Realtor can't negotiate a different time, try to keep the decorations to a minimum until after the showing. Ideally, your decorations will be able to be set up and taken down in a short period of time.
  • Dallas Fort Worth apartment overview - Q4 2007 - By: Patrick C O Connor
    After a 2006 in which post-Katrina re-alignment created annual absorption totaling only 384 units, strong absorption figures in 2007 were an indicator of the strength gained in the multi-family market throughout Dallas/Fort Worth. The market absorbed 6,757 units over the year, with Class A and B markets doing the heavy lifting. The Class A market fared the best over the year, absorbing 4,148 units, d/oubling absorption levels reported in 2006. The Class B market strengthened significantly, posting 2,942 units absorbed in 2007 compared to only 146 units absorbed in 2006. The Class C and D markets didn't fare as well with absorption figures totaling -262 units and -71 units, respectively.
  • Adjustable Attitudes Instead of Adjustable Mortgages - By: VK Melhado
    The foreclosure crisis has clued some - certainly not all - people to the fact that buying a house that you can't afford ends up badly. Somewhere between the public's rabid fascination with the rich and famous and the American Dream is the attitude that it is permissible for people to risk their credit rating, their health and their family's security in order to live in a home that is so far out of their budget that it might as well be on another planet.
  • What is a HIP? - By: Jenny Andrew
    The Home Information Pack Regulations 2006 set out provisions on the "required" and "authorised" content of the Pack.
  • Community Living Has Evolved - By: VK Melhado
    The 97 one to two-acre home sites range in price from $400,000 to over $1.5 million depending on elevation, location and mountain views. The community is connected with a system of wilderness trails, pathways, cycling loops and owner access roads.
  • Buying Versus Renting: What Would You Choose To Do? - By: Isla Campbell
    In the debate over whether it is better to buy a property or to rent one, there are many arguments supporting both sides. Whichever route you decide is best for your personal circumstances there are some essential points to consider.
  • New Housing Bill - In a Nutshell - By: Karrie Rose
    The housing bill basically represents a temporary lifeline for mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and relief for 400,000 homeowners in mortgage distress. All in all, there is about $15 billion in housing tax breaks. Here is the bill - in a nutshell.
  • The big sale: a checklist for selling your home - By: Paul McIndoe
    Selling your home is a big step, comprised of many little steps; here are a few to help you along your way to a successful sell.