In today’s market, people look to cut costs in every area – including selling your home. For this reason, it is not uncommon for a seller to circumvent the typical process of signing with a real estate company and relying on someone else to negotiate the deal. When choosing to sell your home on your [...]
If you are in the market for buying a home, you need to understand the function, necessity, and relevance of a real estate appraisal. Unlike a home inspection, a real estate appraisal helps the lending institution–a bank or mortgage company–to determine how large a loan it can risk offering to a prospective buyer. Both sellers [...]
With the sudden crash of the housing market and so much blame being attached to sub-prime and adjustable mortgage rates (also known as ARM), you may be thinking: is there any question? Fixed rate of course! But a conventional fixed-rate loan may not be the best option for you. You may benefit from ARMing yourself [...]
05 January 2010
When you want to make money in real estate the key is too move it as quickly as possible. It you go from home to home to quickly it will cause what is called a double closing. Closing With a Third Party Most home sales have only two parties involved, the seller and the buyer. [...]
01 January 2010
Buying a house is probably one of the most important, and stressful, experiences through which anyone will go. It is important to be fully prepared before you begin on this journey so that you can make informed decisions rather than rushing in to buy the first place you fall in love with. The first thing [...]
27 December 2009
The decision to sell your house usually does not come lightly. It is life changing and involves a great deal of money and uncertainty. Most people sell their home through a listing agent who works for a real estate agency, but many enterprising individuals decide to save money by selling their house “by owner.” If [...]
24 December 2009
The real estate company, Coldwell Banker, was founded back in 1906 by Colbert Coldwell who was a real estate Sales Associate in that time. In that time, there were few, if any, real estate companies, so what is it that brought him to the decision to create what is now the very well known real [...]
23 December 2009
The central stretch of the Californian coast is one of the most attractive areas to visit in this popular tourist destination, but it is also an increasingly attractive location for those looking to buy a new property. Every summer, when vacation time comes around there is an influx of people searching for an idyllic vacation [...]
21 December 2009
Alaska is best known as a natural wilderness, but rapid industrial and commercial development has added to the attraction of the wild scenery in recent years, resulting in improvements to the infrastructure. Over the last five years this has meant that many brands that are taken for granted in the rest of the US have [...]
