Spring Real Estate Market: Preparing Your House For Sale By Ilyce R. Glink I know it’s a tough home selling market out there. In many parts of the country, home sales have dropped to levels last seen a decade ago. That means there are going to be more homes on the market, and fierce competition [...]
Real Estate Investing: How to Be a Good Landlord Although my husband, Sam, is a real estate attorney, and I write about real estate all the time, that doesn’t mean we necessarily enjoy being landlords. Truth be told, I like it, and Sam doesn’t as much. He says that’s because he has to do all [...]
9 Things You Should Do to Get the Mortgage of Your Dreams By Sue Stewart, MortgageMatch.com Sue Stewart of MortgageMatch.com has more than 15 years of executive experience in mortgage finance and 27 years in the industry. She has overseen all aspects of major mortgage banking operations for leading home builders and real estate brokerage [...]
Q: I am currently renovating a property in order to rent it. I am interested in opening a bank account to keep those funds separate. One bank has told me that I need a business license. Can you help me find information about opening a bank account? Using a business name vs. personal? Andy Heller [...]
Spring 2011 Housing Market Prediction I’d like to start this look at real estate in 2011 by telling you that there are indeed green shoots coming up. I’d love to say that there are indications of people starting to think about buying homes and that lenders have relaxed lending standards so that more buyers can [...]
Home-Selling Nightmare Never-Ending for Some Homeowners It’s your home-selling nightmare: Your home has been on the market for months, or even years, without so much as a nibble. Nearly every Sunday on my WSB radio show, I hear from home sellers who are stuck in this kind of never-ending home-selling nightmare. They can’t sell because [...]
Underwater with your mortgage? You’re not alone Are you underwater with your mortgage? You’re not alone. According to the latest figures from CoreLogic, 10.8 million, or 22.5 percent, of all residential properties with mortgages were in negative equity at the end of the third quarter of 2010, down from 11 million and 23 percent in [...]
DIY Projects to Add Value to Your Home When home values are soaring, it’s easy to find home-improvement projects that will add value to your home’s bottom line. But when home values aren’t moving all that much, you have to be much more thoughtful about which home-improvement projects will add the most value for the [...]
How to Sell Your Home in 2011 In last week’s post, I talked about some of the challenges facing today’s home sellers, including record-high foreclosures, extremely high levels of unemployment, reduced income for many Americans, and the now-trashed credit profiles of millions of prospective home buyers. These challenges are daunting. What can sellers do? There [...]
2011 Outlook for Home Sellers It’s been a lousy few years for home sellers. With home prices falling by an average of 30 percent (but more than 50 percent in some places, according to the National Association of Realtors) and foreclosures hitting a record high in 2010, home sellers have found it’s pretty hard to [...]
