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What You Should Know About Buying or Selling A Home in Winter

From December to February, the real estate market is at its slowest due to the holidays and the cold weather in many regions. But according to the National Association of REALTORS®, over 11,300 existing homes and 1,600 new homes are sold per day on average from December to February.  That’s still a lot of houses! […]

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What You Should Know About Buying or Selling A Home in Winter

The winter months certainly provide a different set of challenges and complexities compared to the peak-selling season of spring and summer, but they do have several benefits. Sellers can take advantage of the less competition in the market during this period, while buyers have more negotiating power as homes stay longer on the market. Here are some things you should know about buying or selling a home in winter so you can take advantage of the season’s unique upsides.

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Beware of These 5 Hidden Costs When Selling Your Home

If you’ve been thinking about listing your property for sale, you probably already know about the obvious costs associated with selling, such as real estate commissions and closing costs. However, there are also such things as “hidden” costs, which include a variety of smaller expenses that you need to factor in to avoid unsettling surprises and help ensure that you get top dollar for your biggest investment. Read on to get a brief overview of these hidden costs of selling a home. 

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5 Questions Your Real Estate Agent Cannot Answer, and Why

It’s best to hire a trusted and knowledgeable real estate agent to help you in your house-hunting journey. Expect them to be your go-to person for almost all the advice you’ll need regarding the complicated, and often stressful, homebuying process. And yet, if you ask them certain questions, you might be puzzled to find them feeling tongue-tied. Be aware that there are some queries that your realtor couldn’t answer legally. This is because some things are off-limits under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), a federal law enacted in 1968 that prohibits discrimination in the purchase, sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, sex, skin, color, nationality, or family/economic status.

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Getting Cold Feet? Here\’s How You Can Prevent Seller’s Remorse

Buyer’s remorse (the feeling of regret after making a huge purchase) is a common sentiment that a lot of people understand and sympathize with, given that the average person makes huge purchases more often than he/she gets to sell anything of substantial value. This is why the seller counterpart of this feeling is quite unheard

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