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Reasons You Should Consider Selling This Fall
Home Selling

Reasons You Should Consider Selling This Fall

If you’re trying to decide when to sell your house, there may not be a better time to list than right now. The ultimate sellers’ market we’re in today won’t last forever. If you’re thinking of making a move, here are four reasons to put your house up for sale sooner rather than later. 1. Your House Will Likely Sell Quickly According to the Realtors Confidence Index released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), homes continue to sell quickly – on average, they’re selling in just 17 days. As a seller, that’s great news for you. Average days on market is a strong indicator of buyer demand. And if

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Home Buying

How to Deal with Contract Contingencies

Nearly every real estate contract contains contingencies. How you deal with a real estate contract contingency might make or break the sale of your home. Some contingencies are easier to deal with than others, of course. Generally speaking, the faster you can fix the issues or make the accommodations stipulated in your real estate contract, the sooner your home can be sold. What is a Real Estate Contract Contingency? A real estate contract contingency is any condition outlined in the contract that must be met prior to the sale of a home. These stipulations exist to protect both buyers and sellers.

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Home Selling

What’s Motivating People To Move Right Now?

This year, Americans are moving for a variety of reasons. The health crisis has truly reshaped our lifestyles and our needs. Spending so much more time in our current homes has driven many people to reconsider what homeownership means and what they find most valuable in their living spaces. According to the 2020 Annual National Movers Study: “For customers who cited COVID-19 as an influence on their move in 2020, the top reasons associated with COVID-19 were concerns for personal and family health and wellbeing (60%); desires to be closer to family (59%); 57% moved due to changes in employment status

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Home Selling

To Renovate or Not To Renovate Before You Sell

When thinking about selling, homeowners often feel they need to get their house ready with some remodeling to make it more appealing to buyers. However, with so many buyers competing for available homes right now, renovations may not be as vital as they would be in a more normal market. Here are two things to keep in mind if you’re thinking of selling this season. 1. There aren’t enough homes for sale right now. A normal market has a 6-month supply of houses for sale, but today’s housing inventory sits far below that benchmark. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), there’s only

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5 tips for selling your home
Home Selling

5 Tips for Selling Your Home for Retirement

Retirement in the 21st century resembles little of the bygone days. There was a time that charting the course for retirement typically involved moving to a community in a region conducive to an aging population. These communities that boomed in the past are now only one of many options. Seniors are more active and vibrant than ever before, and retirement is now the second chapter of life. Today’s seniors are influential, involved in the community and vital to society. Baby boomers (born 1946-1964) will be one of the largest demographic groups to enter their senior years in the next two decades.

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Homeowner Tips & Resources

Landscape Design: 7 Backyard Makeover Tips for Beginners – Growing Green with BHGRE

If you’ve never tackled landscape design before, you might be overwhelmed by all the choices. But the same principles that guide room setup inside should guide your designs outside, too. Here are seven landscape design tips to get you started.  Determine landscape needs and wants.  Make a list of needs and wants. Do you need a play space for kids? Do you want to grow vegetables? Would your family gather on a patio? Create some rough sketches of the yard, noting where you want to place things; it’s a great organizing principle for landscape design. “These aren’t master plans, just ideas,” says Marianne Lipanovich,

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