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.
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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.
Buyers sit on a wealth of knowledge that sellers crave to know, most of which could be filed under how to attract buyers and make them want to buy a home. Since buyers and sellers don’t get together, click here to reveal what buyers would tell sellers, if they could.
Sales of new single-family homes rose 28.9 percent on an annual basis in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 437,000, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Read more here.
Your Real Estate Concierge and Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty are hosting a Home Sellers Seminar this coming Saturday, February 23rd from 10:00-11:30. The purpose of the seminar is to provide you with information to potentially increase the value of your home.
Speakers:
Kristina Hadinger, Esq., Local Real Estate Attorney
Stanley Chow, CPI, AIA, Home Inspector of Prime Home Building Inspection
Kelly Eager, Stage It To Live, Home Stager
Judson Henderson, Broker
To reserve your seat please RSVP to Livingston Johnson at:
LJohnson@CallawayHenderson.com or (609) 306.4466
The biggest name in search has teamed up with the Internet’s most popular real estate portal.
App detects when users are looking for real estate.
Short video that address the age old question of whether to Buy or Rent.
A low appraisal can torpedo a sale or mortgage application. With a strategy and a little effort, make the appraisal work for you. Here’s how.
Rain or Shine (but probably snow), this is where I’ll be this Sunday between 1 – 4 p.m. Come visit me at 28 Fox Chase Lane in Skillman. To see more, click here.
If you’re house hunting in earnest, you know how easy it is to get houses confused, over time or just when seeing several in a day. Even with notes, which house is which, and what did it look like?
Well, there’s an app to help for both the iPhone and iPad. It’s called House Hunter and you can find it in the App Store on iTunes. House Hunter will organize, track and score against each other the various houses you’re viewing and help you keep on top of your house hunting process.
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