Selling a Home

As the real estate market has heated up, it has become markedly easier to sell a home. While that is good news for home sellers, it brings with it a set of realtors who try to sell homes off-market as a pocket listing, lining their own pockets and often leaving money on the table for [...]

The value of real estate includes the value of the home, plus the value of the land that it is built on. If you have a larger lot does that mean that the house is worth more? Maybe, or maybe not. There is a complex set of factors that determines how much lot size impacts [...]

You’ve had your house listed for a couples months. Buyers keep coming in the door almost every day, but you have not gotten an offer. What gives? You see your neighbors’ houses selling. Is your agent not doing their job? Is there something wrong with your house? How can you get an offer?

Pricing a home for sale is an imperfect science. There is hard sales data to look at, but every home is different, so you have to make subjective comparisons. More importantly, no seller or real estate agent is all-knowing about the market. Is that perfect buyer out there for your house? Or maybe no one [...]

It is 3PM on the day before Thanksgiving, and strangely I continue to receive new home listings for my home buyers. Maybe these sellers or their agents aren’t paying attention, or maybe they are desperate to get the home sold, but listing a home for sale immediately before a holiday is a terrible strategy.

Selling a home can be stressful. Uncertainty rules the day. How long will it take to sell? Will buyers like my house as much as I do? Will I get the price that I want (or need)? No one can predict the final outcome of a home sale, but there are a number of things [...]

We recently wrote about a new law in Washington state that requires all home sellers to install carbon monoxide detectors. Well, sellers and buyers better pay attention to this law if they don’t want home purchase loans to be delayed.

When you buy a home, you are buying real estate, often called real property. Real property refers to land and things that are permanently attached to the land. The other sort of property that you may buy is personal property, which is pretty much anything that is movable and not part of the land. Understanding [...]

Social media can be a great outlet for marketing your home when it is for sale. You can let friends and acquaintances know that your home is for sale and why it is so great. Sometimes your personal network can help source a buyer. However, if you are an active social media user, be careful not [...]

If you are getting ready to sell a home in Washington state, you probably need to go out and buy some carbon monoxide detectors to comply with a new state law. Washington began requiring carbon monoxide alarms for new construction on January 1, 2011, but now requires it for anyone looking to sell a home.