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These Doors Can Modernize Your Listing’s Look
January 2017 | By Melissa Dittmann Tracey Consider these simple yet elegant options for dividing a space that increase its functionality while scoring design points. A front door with pizzazz has always had a starring role in a home’s curb … Continue reading
Posted in Home Owner Tips
Tagged bath, bathrooms, buyers, color, curb appeal, design, family, floor, floor plan, home, home staging, homeowners, homes, increase, kitchen, look, modern, national association of realtors, open, privacy, real estate, realtor, remodel, room, size, visitor
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Pending Home Sales Bounce Back in December
WASHINGTON (January 30, 2017) — Pending home sales picked up in December as solid increases in the South and West offset weakening activity in the Northeast and Midwest, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* … Continue reading
Posted in Real Estate News
Tagged AGO, buyers, Construction, contract, data, existing home, existing home price, family, growth, home prices, home sale, home sales, homeowners, homes, house, housing, housing starts, increase, look, market, Mortgage, mortgage rates, NAR, national association of realtors, November, real estate, realtor, Sale, Sales, size, time, washington
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2017 Home Design Trends
December 2016 | By Barbara Ballinger Housing styles emerge slowly and typically appeal first to cutting-edge architects, builders, and interior designers. As a trend spreads and gains wider interest, it may go mainstream, become almost ubiquitous, and eventually lose its … Continue reading
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Tagged Active, architecture, building, buyers, cabinets, color, community, Construction, countertops, design, Environment, family, favor, floor, floors, for sale, gray, healthy, heat, home, home design, homeowners, homes, house, Houses, increase, kitchen, lending, lighting, look, market, marketing, NAR, national association of realtors, neighborhood, office, paint, palette, real estate, real estate market, realtor, remodel, residential development, room, seller, sellers, shopping, size, Social Media, trends, upgrades, work, workplace
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Open Floor Plan Still Popular
Daily Real Estate News | Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Open floor plans continue to reign. Eighty-four percent of builders say that in the typical single-family home they build, the kitchen and family room arrangement is at least partially open. Fifty-four … Continue reading
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Tagged buyers, family, floor, floor plan, home, home buyer, homeowners, homes, house, housing market, kitchen, look, moving, national association of realtors, open, real estate, realtor, remodel, remodeling, room, Sales, size
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6 Things Everyone Should Do When Moving Into a New House
Skip potential trouble by doing these 6 things When I bought my first house, my timing couldn’t have been better: The house closing was two weeks before the lease was up on my apartment. That meant I could take my … Continue reading
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Tagged clean, Cleaning, family, fresh start, heat, home, homeowners, house, houselogic, money, moving, national association of realtors, realtor, room, water
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Home Owners Should Feel Twice as Rich
Daily Real Estate News | Wednesday, November 02, 2016 Thanks to rising home prices, home owners are getting richer, a new study says. The amount of homeowner equity has doubled in the last five years, according to CoreLogic’s latest Home … Continue reading
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Tagged AGO, growth, home, home prices, home value, homeowners, house, housing, market, national association of realtors, News, price, real estate, realtor, rising home prices, Sale, Sales
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The Power of Pets
January 2016 | By Melissa Dittmann Tracey The real estate business traditionally has shown scant love for pets. The conventional wisdom held that sellers should conceal all traces of their dogs or cats—the toys, bowls, beds, even the animals themselves—when … Continue reading
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Tagged buyers, dogs, family, for sale, home, home buyer, home for sale, homeowners, homes, homes for sale, house, marketing, moving, national association of realtors, properties, property, real estate, realtor, sellers, staging
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