Home Buying and Home Selling News Archive of March 2007

Real estate guru flips into new series
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
South Carolina real estate wizard Richard Davis of “Flip This House” fame transforms the Greenville home of Shoeless Joe Jackson into a museum in a one-hour ...

In real estate, bad news can be good
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
"Owning some paid-for, income-producing real estate, in addition to having a solid portfolio of other investments, can be a very good thing," says radio ...

How to find right the real estate agent when selling a house
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
"The worst thing you can do is to price your home too high." How do you know which is the right asking price? An agent who synthesizes a lot of data will ...

Buffett-Style Home Buying
Forbes - NY,USA
Now her quest was to "buy low" using a value investor's approach to home buying. After doing some research she determined that the Nashville, Tenn., ...

3 steps to take before buying a home
IndiaPost.com - Union City,CA,USA
Ideally, you can start working on your home buying project before you even start shopping for homes. Keep in mind that most buyers take eight weeks to ...

Building Your Dream House
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
From a financial perspective, it's usually cheaper to buy a house than to build one, especially if the one you buy was constructed by a production builder ...

6 tips for selling without an agent
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
CHICAGO With all the online real-estate information available to home sellers nowadays, it's not surprising that some of them consider selling without the ...

In home real estate, 3 words matter: photos, photos, photos
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
SAN ANTONIO - To reinvent a cliché, a picture could be worth thousands of dollars when you're selling real estate, and good photography and video is ...

Flipped in Florida -- Selling in a Housing Bust: John F. Wasik
Bloomberg - USA
Although they have had no problem renting the Bonita home -- my family and I leased it -- with the slack market, they have had trouble selling it on their  ...

New home sales sock builders' shares
MarketWatch - USA
Shares of homebuilders have seen plenty of volatility recently as nervous investors try to get a handle on whether the key selling season shakes out as a ...

Advice to home sellers: Be savvy
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
Stagnant home prices, more time on the market, a growing inventory of homes for sale and a slower demand have turned the home-buying scene from a seller's ...

Hosting a Successful Open House Can Help Owners Sell Their Homes Quicker
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Holding an open house when your home is on the market can be a great way to introduce prospective buyers to your house. Buyers often find open houses less intimidating than one-on-one appointments to view a home ...

Be safe when selling your home
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
Your Realtor will help you prepare your family and home for the home-selling process. Ask them for suggestions and ideas to keep your home secure ...

Time to Buy Japanese Real Estate
DailyWealth - Baltimore,MD,USA
Tokyo commercial property rose the most during the Japanese real estate bubble in the late 1980s. And prices in Tokyo fell the most during the bust ...

Look at Me: Prospective buyers see front of house first
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription) - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
Buy whole flats of six packs in coordinated hues that work with your existing landscape style. Rather than buying premixed colors, buy quantities of a ...

Smart Moves: Selling? First impression ranks BIG
Novato Advance - Novato,CA,USA
Similarly, many homeowners vividly recall how the front door, entranceway and foyer looked when they first visited the home that they went on to buy ...

Priced to Sell
Hamptons.com - Southampton,NY,USA
Real estate agents across the country are reporting the same market trend despite talk of a softening market and a slow down in home sales. Any property that comes in to the market place at the right price, sells within 90 to 120 days for full price or close to it ...

Housing Bubble and Real Estate Market Tracker
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
This is a big plus for the busy spring home-selling season. Also helping demand is ongoing growth in the number of jobs in the economy. ...

Housing Bubble and Real Estate Market Tracker
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
This is a big plus for the busy spring home-selling season. Also helping demand is ongoing growth in the number of jobs in the economy. ...

The kind but ineffective home seller
Upstate House - NY,USA
The chapter about selling your home alone without a professional agent, called "FSBO," or for sale by owner, is unlikely to give any home seller enough ...

10 Tax Tips For Real Estate Investors
Forbes - NY,USA
As real estate developers and investors do business throughout 2007, they may face complex tax issues that can strain resources and drain profits. They should keep in mind these tax tips, which can possibly help them save money in the long run ...

FSBO Channels™ Free Real Estate Listings Extended To North Carolina
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
FSBO Channels™ announced today that they have extended their free for sale by owner real estate listings to North Carolinians who seek to sell their own ...

Real Estate Commission/You Get What You Pay For
OnMilwaukee.com - Milwaukee,USA
The bigger problem that came about here is that when the second agent, from that same real estate office, wrote the offer, and it was accepted, ...

A subprime sales season: Home loan woes could yield price cuts in ...
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
1 home-selling season. Last Tuesday, two big subprime lenders sent the Dow Jones industrial average tumbling 243 points by disclosing significant financial ...

How to Create Wealth with Real Estate
Derby Daily Reporter - Derby,KS,USA
"Anyone can make money with my proven system," says Robert Allen, well known real estate expert, successful entrepreneur and teacher and the best selling ...

Real Estate Slowdown, Subprime Meltdown--Now What?
Morningstar.com - Chicago,IL,USA
We at Morningstar had long believed that the runup in real estate prices from 2001 to the end of 2005 was unsustainable and had to end at some point. ...

Find best agent to sell your home
Upstate House - NY,USA
Even if you think you might like to try selling your home without a professional realty agent, interview three agents anyway. They won't mind, as they know most "for-sale-by-owner" (called "fizz-bo") home sellers within 30 to 60 days realize how difficult the task is and phone to list with one of the agents already interviewed ...

Web sites can help find a home, but agents can do more
Tulare Advance Register - Tulare,CA,USA
Buying a home is not the same as buying airline tickets or DVDs. Real estate agents provide essential services to both buyers and sellers ...

Foreclosures skyrocke
The Salinas Californian - Salinas,CA,USA
But he warned that once the real estate market rights itself within the next couple of years, buyers may no longer be in charge of their home-buying destiny ...

Buying a home? Tax freeze may be on way
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
LANSING -- Home buyers would get an 18-month reprieve from Michigan's uniquely large property tax hikes under a plan by lawmakers to wake up the slumbering ...

Trends: Redesign Your Home Without Buying Anything New
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
PONTE VEDRA, FL -- Home design is extremely popular. People are painting walls, ripping up floors and buying new furniture all to get a different look. ...

Is owning a home still cool?
Inman.com (subscription) - Emeryville,CA,USA
And Realtors turned a blind eye to the poor-quality loans, greedy mortgage brokers, inflated appraisals and foolhardy home-buying decisions. ...

Dress Your House For Success
Hamptons.com - Southampton,NY,USA
Brokers who handle high priced homes are bringing in professionals more and more in this market to try to help sell a house. These designers will move ...

Depending on home equity not a good retirement plan
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
It is not a simple asset to unload. Some retirees find it too emotionally draining to sell the family home. Others risk selling property during a slump ...

It's tough to sell your home by yourself
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
What are the legal requirements in the home-selling process? The law places numerous disclosure requirements on the home seller. ...

Rent or buy -- timing is everything
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
When you buy a house, on the other hand, your down payment goes toward equity, and so does some of the money you pay toward your mortgage. ...

Stretching home-buying dollars to the maximum
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Alma Cabrera, left and her husband Mariano Cabrera (cq) try to navigate the details involved in purchasing their own home during an eight-hour, ...

TheStreet.com Ratings: Best, Worst Real Estate Funds
TheStreet.com - USA
The second-worst position on the list belongs to ProFunds Real Estate UltraSector (REPSX), which is leveraged to 150% of the Dow Jones US Real Estate Index. ...

2007 Real Estate Forecast - Slow Recovery
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Bankrate Releases 2007 Real Estate Guide NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bankrate, Inc. (Nasdaq: RATE) today released its 2007 Real Estate Guide ...

Fee Free Home Selling Made Easy
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
Homeowners across the country now have a quick, no fee alternative when it comes to selling a house. WCDA Properties, a nationwide fee free home ...

Reverse-mortgaged home may be lost after death
Upstate House - NY,USA
Because he is unable to refinance with a new mortgage to pay off the existing reverse-mortgage balance, he will have to sell the house or lose it when the ...

In home selling, stagers say looks are everything
Allentown Examiner - Allentown,NJ,USA
HOLMDEL - Ask any Realtor, and they'll probably tell you that selling a home in today's competitive market requires more than simple curb appeal. ...

Valuation among key factors in real estate investing
Springfield Business Journal - Springfield,MO,USA
Real estate, in general, has traditionally remained a safe haven for investment dollars, and the southwest Missouri market is no exception. ...

Buying A House May Be Cheaper Than You Think
CBS 13 - Sacramento,CA,USA
“It's really expensive renting a house,” says renter Sara Horr. Experts add you can easily buy a condo or townhouse for $310000 dollars. ...

Housing market steady as other areas in nation slump
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
In 2005, it took 112 days to sell a house. That was due, no doubt, to the paralyzing effect of the Ellsworth scare. Uncertainty over the base’s future cast ...

Home-staging Professionals Help Move Older Houses to New Owners
RisMedia.com (press release) - Norwalk,CT,USA
Realtors and home stagers alike say it can be hard for clients to hear their home needs some changes. "You have to teach your clients that selling your ...

A great house is all about the fit
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
I take that to mean they will hoist my rear end off the back of my knees, and I buy them on the spot. The saleslady gives me the bag and a knowing smile ...

Home buyers' fears are often unjustified
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
They don't just want money; they want guidance, too," says Robert Irwin, author of "Tips and Traps When Buying a Home" and other real estate books...

Buying your dream home
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
A home is probably the largest single investment you'll make, and that's why the home-buying process should be undertaken with great care. ...

Real estate pros predict rebound in 2007
Chetek Alert - Chetek,WI,USA
One thing that cannot be argued, however, is that real estate sales figures were definitely in decline state-wide and nation-wide in 2006-and that optimism ...

Company’s 2006 Results: Home Staging Can Make Substantial Impact on a Home’s Marketability
RisMedia.com (press release) - Norwalk,CT,USA
Real estate agents have always emphasized the importance of appealing to a buyer's emotions when selling a home. New research now validates that theory and ...

5 Tips To Sell Your Home
WESH.com - Winter Park,FL,USA
The summer of 2005 was a very good year for anyone selling their home. Houses sold before sellers could stick the for-sale sign in the dirt ...