3 Ways to Ensure Your Winter Home Showings are a Success
As realtors, wintertime home showings can be a special challenge, even for experienced agents. Cold temperatures and shorter hours of daylight significantly alter the customary real estate experience, requiring innovative approaches to ensure that prospective buyers connect with your listing in the same meaningful way as during other seasons.
How to Pick the Best Agent for You
Looking to buy or sell? Start by looking for your agent and getting the best one to help you. There are a lot of real estate agents out there, and also a lot of very good ones – so it is important to find the right one for you and your situation. But how do you even start?
Myths Of Selling
HOUSES are selling faster than hot cakes – so why do we need to bother working hard to sell our home?
The Benefits of Choosing a Career in Real Estate
LOOKING for a new career where you are in control of both your hours and your income? Becoming a real estate agent may be an ideal fit. Most jobs have you reporting to a boss and constrained by a rigid workday or an hourly pay packet which never allows you to jump ahead.
Best Flowers to Plant for Increased Curb Appeal
When you are looking to sell your house, the one thing everyone has in common is that they want to receive the highest amount possible for the sale. Of all the ways to boost your home's curb appeal when you put it on the market, what could be quicker or less expensive than planting some colorful garden flowers? In addition to trimming your trees and shrubs and freshening up your mulch, consider adding value to your home by adding one or more of these flowers to your front yard.
Best Ways to Market Yourself As a REALTOR®
As a realtor, you need to be able to market yourself to potential clients. In a world that has become heavily reliant on technology, it is important to make sure you are using a modern approach to acquiring clients.
Helping Your Clients Narrow Down Search Criteria
BUYING a new home is exciting – but also rather overwhelming.
After all, the buyers have so many choices and options to consider when looking for their next dream home it can become a bit of a needle in a haystack affair.
Realtor.com® Housing Forecast: Sellers to Maintain the Market Advantage
The 2020 housing market was full of surprises. Despite a health pandemic impacting nearly all segments of everyday life, real estate was resilient. Realtor.com® recently released its 2021 housing forecast, predicting that inventory will make a slow and steady comeback, providing buyers with much-needed relief. However, increasing interest rates and prices will continue to pose a challenge on affordability throughout the year.
Why is Continuing Education so Important for REALTORS®?
LEARNING never stops – and neither should it. As the world around us continues to change and evolve, so must we along with it.
Would you be happy seeing a doctor who had not looked at any medical advances in the past 20 years? Would you be satisfied using a lawyer who had not stayed abreast of legal changes in recent decades?
Time Management Hacks for REALTORS®
Just about everybody dreams of being their own boss – calling the shots, making the schedule, not having to answer to anyone else. That’s why so many people get into real estate. You get the assistance of working with other REALTORS® and the tools of your brokerage but you are in charge of your own life and schedule. You can work as much or as little as you want.
Market Recovery Survey: Buyers Making Their Way Back
The real estate rebound is coming as buyers continue making their way back onto the market, according to the recently released 2020 Market Recovery Survey from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). The survey, which received over 2,000 responses from REALTORS®, shows that market recovery is happening at this very moment. Of those surveyed, 92 percent said their buyers have either already returned to the market or they never left.
To-Dos Before You Sell
If the idea of selling is beginning to have some appeal, but you’re not quite ready to make the leap, there are things you could do while you are still in the thinking stage.
3 Inexpensive Upgrades that can Increase the Value of your Home
Most people take great pride in making their home more appealing, and homeowners can spend hundreds or thousands each year on improvements and alterations. One of the main things to consider when choosing an improvement project is how much value it could potentially add to your residence. You also need to think about the overall cost of the project. Here are some inexpensive improvements that can increase the value of your home: