Articles of interest to both homebuyers and home sellers, such as “staging” your home for sale, the pros and cons of buying in a community with a homeowners association, and more.
What Will Drive a Real Estate Market Comeback
05/28/2010
by Earl Lee
The seeds of this housing bust were sown during the preceding boom. Following the 2001 recession, a combination of tight housing markets and the lowest mortgage interest rates in nearly 40 years sparked rapid house price appreciation.
What's Your House Worth?
05/25/2010
By Bill Abrams
Whether you’re buying or selling a luxury home, determining the “real” value of a home is very important.
Are Women More Decisive When Buying a Home?
04/13/2010
Parsippany, N.J. (August 17, 2009) – It often seems as though men and women are from different planets, but every day millions of couples navigate through day-to-day and even life-altering decisions. Because a home is the biggest purchase most people will make in their lifetime, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC surveyed 1,000 individuals to discover how much men and women differ in the home-buying process.
Move-up Buyers Benefit from Affordability
04/02/2010
One of the bright spots of the economy is the rise in economic indicators for the last ten months. But in January 2010, five out of the ten indicators that rose weren’t the ones that mattered most. Jobs, money supply, building permits and capital goods ordered all declined.
It's a buyers' market for real estate investors, too
03/05/2010
Turn on any financial news program and at some point you’ll hear the experts extolling the virtues of diversification. Real estate, even through the market downturn, has long been considered a conservative, long-term strategy to growing wealth.