| Find the right real estate stager |
| Buyers in some areas complain about walking into an open house and finding dirty laundry in bedrooms. In places like the San Francisco Bay Area, so many listi... |
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| Death of a real estate deal |
| Take a proactive approach to buying or selling a home. By anticipating what could go wrong with your real estate transaction, you can take care of potential p... |
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| Closing costs vary by location |
| Closing costs, the costs associated with buying or selling a home, can add up. It's wise to get an estimate of how much you're likely to pay in closing costs ... |
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| It still pays to remodel |
| The home-sale market has taken a beating in the last few years, which begs the question: Does it makes sense financially to invest in home improvements? <... |
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| The truth about short sales |
| Buyers often shy away from considering short-sale listings, either because they've had a bad experience or have heard horror stories about the deals that take... |
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| Home prices put to ZIP code test |
| The wealth created by the housing bubble has been wiped out, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors who spoke at ... |
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| 2010: year of the turnaround? |
| A spurt in home sales in 2009, aided by low interest rates and the first-time homebuyer tax credit, has led some economists to forecast a turnaround in the ho... |
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| FHA program funds fixers |
| Investors have been taking advantage of low interest rates and discounted prices to buy run-down foreclosure properties, sometimes 10 or so at a time. They fi... |
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| Rate-lock dos and don'ts |
| Interest rates dropped at the end of November after creeping up over the summer. As of the beginning of December, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with interest r... |
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| Real estate attorney a buyer's best friend? |
| In some states like New York, a real estate attorney needs to draft a home purchase contract. In other states like California, real estate agents prepare p... |
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| Backup offers give sellers a Plan B |
| Every seller's dream is to receive offers from more than one buyer. Although multiple offers were scarce last year, in some markets and price ranges listings ... |
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| Buyers master contingent-sale offers |
| Most repeat homebuyers don't like selling their current home until they know where they're going. However, most repeat homebuyers can't qualify to buy before ... |
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| Tips for handling contingent offers |
| Financing a trade-up move is far more difficult now than it was before the economic meltdown of fall 2007. Today's guidelines require such buyers to qualify t... |
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| Buying now a risk worth taking? |
| Recent good news about the housing market has many homebuyers wondering whether now is a good time to buy. For example, home sales activity increased 9.4 perc... |
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| Sell now or wait? |
| The recent upward shift in home prices is causing some ambivalent homeowners to seriously consider selling. A common dilemma is when to sell. Is the recent up... |
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