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5 tips if you have to sell your home in winter
Just your luck — you have to sell your home in winter, the slowest and dreariest sales season of all.
But cheer up. You can use staging, the reduced competition and some seasonal opportunities to your advantage.
“You wouldn’t necessarily choose to sell your home in winter,” says Katie Severance, a broker for ReMax in Upper Montclair, N.J. “But there are certain extra steps you can take to really help your chances.”
Which remodel projects net the highest resale value?
There two types of home remodeling projects: The things you do for yourself, and the things you do that could increase the value of your home when it comes time to sell it.
The folks at Angie’s List just surveyed remodelers and real estate pros to find out what projects give the best return on investment. The top 5 are: kitchen, bathroom, decks, new siding and window replacement.
Tips for Selling Your Home Before the End of the Year
The fourth quarter of the year can cause some sellers to worry if their home hasn’t sold yet. But according to Trulia.com, there is still time to sell.
Typically, many buyers are eager to move and get settled in before the school year and holidays begin but that doesn’t mean you should be discouraged.
Green value in going green?
Home energy efficiency and sustainability have been major policy priorities for the Obama administration, but lurking in the background are two consistent, pesky questions:
Beyond the documentable savings on utilities bills, do such steps add to the resale value of a home? And do they make it easier or faster to sell your property?
Officials and housing groups say definitive statistical data covering multiple regions of the country are scarce. But some localized research projects in Oregon, Washington and California offer promising hints.
When is a good time to sell if it’s not a seller’s market?
Given the level of economic uncertainty these days, even falling home prices and a 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropping this past week to a record 4.15 percent national average may not be enough to reel buyers in.
Not the ideal moment to sell a house. So jumping into the real-estate waters can be quite a leap of faith. How can you know that this is the right time?
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