Without a doubt, the most difficult challenge that home sellers face in a buyer’s market is knowing how to price their homes. In a market such as this, where there may seem to be no rhyme or reason as to which homes are selling, and for how much, proper pricing can be especially tricky. (I’ve [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the same thing. Which came as news to our chief technology officer, our Seattle-based engineering leaders, three star product managers and our hyper-productive lone marketing director, all of whom worked [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Eastern Loudoun may be known (or reviled, depending on how you look at it) for many things – income, traffic, McMansions, traffic, its school system, traffic – but being full of fixer-uppers is not one of them. Sure, there are parts of Loudoun that have older homes in need of a little love, but most [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 20, 2008
I remember selling real esate in San Francisco back in 2003. Everything was selling. If the property had a parcel number it would sell. The fundamentals were just thrown out the door. Times have changed. When I moved to Chula Vista in July of 2007, we were very close to buying a home. So much in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tustin: Remodel or Move? In the Saddleback Valley News last week, there was an advice column called “Ask a Realtor.” The realtor was Jim Flynn; the question was “Should I add on or buy a bigger home?” Forgive me, but I can’t find an electronic version of the publication, so here goes [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The $1 Home Imagine a housing market in which homes sell for less than the price of a gallon of gas. Oh, wait. No need to imagine. Right now, that housing market exists. Thanks to Historic Properties, an online venue for buying and selling historic houses, you can find that $1 dream [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 30, 2008
0809-biz- mortgage .jpg A very interesting article in the New York Times has been expressing what I’ve been discussing with my husband lately about home buying. Yes, prices are coming down somewhat (at least in Marin; the decline may be … Read the rest of the post here: Mortgage Rates Up, Home Prices Down: Is [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 29, 2008
What it does: Unlike the other sites listed here — which don’t sell real estate — Redfin is an online brokerage that features homes for sale from multiple listing services, foreclosures and owners. It has a map-based search. … Read more: Real Estate information flows freely on the Web Share and Enjoy: These icons link to [...]
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