No doubt most appraisers are sufficiently skilled and experienced to be able to provide appraisals that are suitable for obtaining loan approval and are fully accordant with the professional appraisal standards.
You can expect that each agent you meet with will skillfully ask a lot of questions about the timing and location of the move you plan to make and provide basic counseling regarding the current marketplace and sale process.
Home Staging can turn houses into model homes to showcase. That’s one reason why so much effort goes into decorating and furnishing new-home models: staging results in more buyers saying, “I want this house.”
In a typical escrow, the buyer may have up to 17 days or more to perform property inspections before having to remove their investigation contingencies.
Real estate agents have a variety of stories to tell about property showings and open houses. Some of the situations and incidents are so odd they are almost comical, while others have caused concern.
I was recently asked by a local Palisades homeowner to reconcile several estimates of value they had gotten on the internet, which ranged from $3 to 7 million. Whether to put their home up for sale or not was dependent on the estimated value.
Here are some suggestions based on my having participated in hundreds of multiple-offer negotiations, and our evolution of a system that has proven effective for close to 100 clients.
Everyone has an opinion about the real estate market, but not all of that unsolicited information is true. Of the many myths around selling your home, here are five of the most common and pervasive ones.
