Bidding wars are back. Seemingly overnight, many of the nation’s major housing markets have gone from stagnant to sizzling, with for-sale listings drawing offers from a large number of house hunters. Read the story here.
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If home is where the heart is, then kitchens are clearly one of the vital organs that convert a house into a home. So it is no surprise that kitchen renovations are among the most popular remodeling projects tackled each year. Kitchen remodeling on the cheap.
Befor you jump into a 30 year mortgage, check out whether you can afford a shorter term loan – it could save you thousands of dollars in interest of you do. Read more here.
Contemporary Coolness, this Sunday,
at 15 Carsdale Court, Belle Mead, NJ
Be there or be square. For more info,
Renovating a bathroom can be overwhelming. You have to decide how much you can spend, select the right products, and determine if you’re going to change the layout. And that’s often before you call a contractor. To ensure that your bathroom renovation runs smoothly, here’s a checklist to keep your project on track.
If you really love wine, and have an ample basement, here’s a wine cellar to aspire to.
The conventional wisdom is that buyers and sellers go together like oil and water. That is to say, they don’t go together at all. Some say they are at odds simply by virtue of sitting across the bargaining table from one another, which – along with negotiation and legal issues that are par for the home buying course – create the presumption that they want totally different things. Nevertheless, there are things that sellers can see from their side of the table that you cannot.
Previewed a lovely property today: not my price point, but lovely nonetheless. The house was built in 1773 by the Rev. John Witherspoon, leading patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence & 6th president of Princeton University. It’s grown a bit since then. Click here to see more.
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