Category: Real Estate

Sixty-two percent of sellers’ agents say that staging a home decreases the amount of time a home spends on the market, according to the National Association of Realtors® 2017 Profile of Home Staging, www.nar.realtor/reports/profile-of-home-staging. “Realtors® know how important it is for buyers to be able to picture themselves living in...

Reader’s Digest today announced the ten finalists in its first annual “Nicest Place in America” contest in partnership with Nextdoor, the private social network for neighborhoods. The contest is a national crowd-sourced hunt for exceptional places whose people exemplify ways of life the country needs more of today. Americans across the...

Existing-home sales took off in March to their highest pace in over 10 years, and severe supply shortages resulted in the typical home coming off the market significantly faster than in February and a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Only the West saw a decline in...

The Appraisal Institute, the nation’s largest professional association of real estate appraisers, today advocated that homeowners pursue smaller-scale renovation projects in order to maximize their potential return on investment. “The latest research shows that home improvements with a relatively low cost are most likely to generate a positive cost-to-value ratio,”...

California’s spring housing market posted a strong start to the year as existing home sales and median price registered healthy gains in March on both a monthly and annual basis, as did every major region in the state, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today. Closed escrow sales of...

According to the survey, 84 percent of Americans said the neighborhood would be equally important or more important than the house itself, if they were searching for a new home. In order to live in their ideal neighborhood, they would be willing to give up the following features if searching...