http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog Buy-and-Sell-House-Fast.com Blog Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:15:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Home staging—a popular trend in the competitive housing market—is often the next step in selling your house more quickly, and sometimes at a higher price. Staging is preparing the home before it goes up for sale. The practice has become somewhat of an industry—there are certified stagers, staging assessments, and ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/secrets-of-staging-sell-your-house-for-more-quickly/ Encouraged by a weak dollar and a belief in the resiliency of the U.S. economy, individuals like Reddy, along with institutional investors such as pension funds and private equity groups, are seeking investment properties and development opportunities in the United States. Their markets of choice include New York City, Los ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/top-us-real-estate-markets-for-investment/ Lower energy costs, healthier living and improved indoor and outdoor environments are increasingly demanded by and available to home buyers at all income levels, according to preliminary findings from a survey released by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and McGraw-Hill Construction. Families and individual homeowners with the lowest incomes are ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/home-buyers-increasingly-thinking-and-buying-green/ Beside price, the best way to sell your home in a down market is to: Hire an aggressive agent who shows you a plan for selling your house - and make sure they follow through. Give your house a facelift with new paint and repairs. List it online with such sites as eBay ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/how-to-sell-in-a-buyers-market/ People selling preowned homes will be lucky to sell it, because the U.S. is in the worst slump in more than two decades, and it is getting deeper. The National Association of Realtors released the latest numbers, which found sales of existing homes in June fell more than twice the expected ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/home-sales-slump-deepens/ House prices are falling at the steepest rate on record, but for some buyers, the attraction of a home is overcoming the anxiety of buying a depreciating asset. From October through April, North County homes lost about 3 percent in equity ---- per month. Right in the middle of that slide, ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/buying-a-home-in-a-falling-market/ Mortgage rates jumped this past week, making it even harder to purchase a home. But if you think it's hard to buy in today's real estate market, with jump-through-hoops loans and the fear of overpaying, try selling your home. Home sales are the lowest in a decade, and median home ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/how-to-sell-your-home-yourself/ Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted Saturday to send a sprawling housing bill to the White House, economists, consumer advocates and other analysts said the package of programs for cash-strapped homeowners and shaken mortgage lenders is unlikely to relieve the foreclosure crisis that is driving the ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/housing-rescue-bill-heads-to-bushs-desk-for-signature/ This is an excerpt from the book "How to Buy Your First Home" by Diana Brodman Summers Features The features or the interior layout and amenities of a home are usually what a person is mainly concerned with. Do you dream of a winding staircase that your children will scramble down on ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/deciding-which-house-features-are-important/ Spring has always seemed the fresh time of year to me. It's a rebirth of sorts; a harbinger of the growth season ahead. As spring time foliage bursts forth and shows its vivid array of colors, we yearn to be outdoors. Spring is also a time when people think about a ... http://www.buy-and-sell-house-fast.com/blog/spring-a-great-time-to-find-a-new-home/