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5 ‘Hip’ Ideas for Do-it-Yourself Staging
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on March 3, 2010
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The website Styled, Staged & Sold by REALTOR Magazine presents five “Hip Tipz” from professional stager Charlene Storozuk of DEZINGERDIGZ. Take a look. Some of these offer interesting ideas for a spring DIY project — no need to stage for a move! |
A preview of Charlene’s ideas:
You can view the complete report and the last two ideas by visiting the online article here. |
Ten Inexpensive Ways to Wow Buyers
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on January 27, 2010
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From the REALTOR Magazine Website: Now is the time for home owners contemplating a spring sale to spruce up their properties in anticipation of what Mike Larson of Weiss Research calls a potentially vibrant home-selling season. “If you have been beating your head against a wall, this is going to feel a lot better,” he jokes. You can see the entire article by following this link to REALTOR.org |
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Click this link to access the full text article on the U.S. News & World Report website. |
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Home Selling Tips for 2010
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on January 7, 2010
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Forbes recently published their list of tips for selling your home during 2010. According to Forbes, one of the best ideas is listing your home earlier than in more traditional years. |
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In their accompanying article “The Best Time of Year to Sell a Home”, Forbes discusses the various factors that are affecting the residential real estate market, and Forbes makes a case that the Spring of 2010 will be most effective for listing residential real estate. Of course, well known factors affecting the market today could vibrate and change very rapidly. These include interest rates, the federal tax credit, job security, home prices, unemployement, and general public sentiment. While not in-depth, these articles from Forbes do offer updated information for early 2010. |
Forbes 2010 Home Selling Ideas
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Staging Your Home for the Holidays
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on December 13, 2009
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Helpful ideas from HGTV’s FrontDoor website for listing, staging and selling your home during the holidays. Here’s a summary of their seven ideas, but visit the FrontDoor website to see the full slideshow and narrative.
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Staging Tips for your Walls
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on December 6, 2009
It’s not often that you see information on how to dress up your walls, but Styled, Staged and Sold offers Five Rules for Tackling Walls, from staging professional Debra Gould, President of Toronto-based Six Elements, Inc.
Here are Debra’s five tips:
- Remove personal pictures.
- Pay attention to the condition of the walls.
- Hang mirrors.
- Get some art.
- Stay in proportion.
You can see the complete Five Rules article here. Or, visit Ms. Gould’s Six Elements website here.
Front Door Eye Candy
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on November 27, 2009
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Front doors are a perfect place to set that “first impression” and the holiday season gives us a tremendous opportunity to create a unique entry for our homes. Styled Staged & Sold has created a short list of pictorial exmaples that are interesting and may inspire you this holiday season. The use of color, decoration and setting helps to create a different appeal in each example.
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The Staging Diva’s Top Staging Tips
Posted by Kathy Landstra in General Info, Home Sellers on October 21, 2009
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If you’re hoping to sell fast, these home staging tips from Debra Gould of StagingDiva.com will help buyers fall in love with your home:
You can see Debra’s entire article by visiting HGTV’s FrontDoor website. |
Analysis: Buying power is being reduced
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Buyers, Home Sellers, Real Estate Data on October 13, 2009
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Zillow, an online real estate marketplace, released a study today that shows residential home Sellers are slowly regaining some of their pricing power as selling prices are creeping closer to the Sellers’ listing prices. A compilation of the data (See table below) shows that August was better than July for Sellers and that we’re gradually moving away from the recent bottom in January 2009.
As shown above, Buyers nationwide paid a median of $6,525 below the listing price in August, which was a median 3% variance to the Sellers’ listing price. This shows improvement over July and big movement from January 2009. Additional news and comentary are available here: |
20 Home Design Challenges
Posted by Kathy Landstra in General Info, Home Sellers on September 23, 2009
“Pepto Bismol” pink tile, high gloss walls and dark painted trim top this list of “Biggest Losers: 20 Home Design Features That Send Buyers Running.”
The top five from the list:
- Dated and excessively bold or dark paint and tile colors, such as “Pepto Bismol” pink, avocado green, deep plum, or jet black.
- Lacquered or high-gloss painted walls that are expensive to repaint and show all defects.
- Painted trim that’s very dark-and costly to remove.
- Wallpaper, which is a lot of work (and potentially expensive) to remove.
- Kitchens that lack any dining space.
You can find the remaining list of 20 design challenges by following this link to Styled, Staged and Sold.
25% of Listings Decrease Asking Price
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on June 8, 2009
According to a recently released study by Trulia.com, 25% of those listing on the Trulia.com site have reduced the asking price for the home. Top cities for reduction are:
1. Jacksonville, Fla. – 36 percent
2. Tucson – 32 percent
3. Boston – 32 percent
4. Los Angeles – 32 percent
5. Columbus, Ohio – 31 percent
6. Dallas – 31 percent
7. Honolulu – 31 percent
8. Minneapolis – 31 percent
9. Austin – 30 percent
10. Washington, D.C. – 30 percent
11. Baltimore – 30 percent
12. Las Vegas – 30 percent
Source: Trulia.com (06/05/2009)
You can find more info from Realtor Magazine.
Open Houses are a must
Posted by Kathy Landstra in Home Sellers on June 3, 2009
More than 90 percent of potential home buyers plan to attend open houses as they look for a home to buy, according to a survey conducted for Trulia.com.
Here’s how they find out about properties open to view:
- 62 percent use online sites to find open houses.
- 53 percent use information provided to them by real estate professionals.
- 36 percent use neighborhood signs.
- 31 percent use information in the newspaper or other printed source
We’ll be placing our open houses here in HomesForCincy, but while we build our inventory, please visit the Sibcy Cline site here: Open Houses
Open Houses are a great way to invest in your market knowledge and develop your eye for value. Visit a few this Sunday.
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What is a Home Warranty?
A home warranty is a service contract, normally for one year, which helps protect home owners against the cost of unexpected covered repairs or replacement on their major systems and appliances that break down due to normal wear and tear. Coverage is for systems and appliances in good working order at the start of the contract.
What is a Short Sale?
If a home is being sold for below what the current seller owes on the property—and the seller does not have other funds to make up the difference at closing—the sale is considered a short sale. A short sale is different from a foreclosure, which is when the seller's lender has taken title of the home and is selling it directly. Homeowners often try to accomplish a short sale in order to avoid foreclosure.
