Agents Heaven - Real Estate Blog » Home Selling http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog Real Estate - Realtors - MLS Search Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:11:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en VIDEO: Top 5 Tips For Home Sellers http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog/2007/09/14/video-top-5-tips-for-home-sellers/ http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog/2007/09/14/video-top-5-tips-for-home-sellers/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:31:21 +0000 admin http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog/2007/09/14/video-top-5-tips-for-home-sellers/ As you know, I like to bring readers all the best real estate tips I can find, whether it’s home buying tips, home selling tips, or even ways to avoid foreclosure. Usually I present a few of my favorite tips from real estate articles I’ve dug up, and link you to the articles to read the rest, but today I’d like to try something a little different.

We are, after all, in the YouTube/internet media generation, and more and more real estate agents are making internet videos to sell homes. It only stands to reason that real estate experts would share their tips via internet video as well.

Today I stumbled across a guy at YouTube who calls himself the “Real Estate Dude”, who offers his top 5 tips for home sellers, that focus a lot on the little things you can do to think like the buyer and make your house more appealing to them.

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]]> http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog/2007/09/14/video-top-5-tips-for-home-sellers/feed/ Can’t Get Rid of That Home? Try These Tried & True Home Selling Methods in This Buyer’s Market http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog/2007/08/31/cant-get-rid-of-that-home-try-these-tried-true-home-selling-methods-in-this-buyers-market/ http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog/2007/08/31/cant-get-rid-of-that-home-try-these-tried-true-home-selling-methods-in-this-buyers-market/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:14:14 +0000 admin http://www.agentsheaven.com/blog/2007/08/31/cant-get-rid-of-that-home-try-these-tried-true-home-selling-methods-in-this-buyers-market/ As the current mortgage situation weighs on the overall outlook for the real estate market, it’s tough to say “it’s a buyer’s market”, as many people are concerned we’re not even close to the bottom yet, and things will get much worse before they get better. Others disagree.

The trouble is, it’s tough to know who’s right. Many of the “experts” are bloggers who’s existence depends on negative developments in the real estate market (evident by their very blog names), so can you really trust them? We’ve heard “experts” say that the “real estate bubble” was about to burst for years, and it never happened. Even now, we’re still in slowdown rather than a crash. Could it crash? Possibly, but we aren’t there yet. We still occasionally see positive numbers pop up in months where negatives were predicted, indicating a softer blow than some seem to be almost hoping for.

Home prices have definitely fallen, and seem set to fall further for some time. Some call it a buyer’s market, others call it the calm before the storm. Either way, the ball is certainly not in the court of the seller at this point, especially with the existing homes on the market piling up. If buyer’s have good credit and can get a loan, one could argue that they’ve got their pick of the litter.

Because of this, BankRate.com offers all you sellers some tips on moving that real estate. It should come as no secret that this one is becoming more common, and almost expected as buyers get more and more picky:

• Closing costs: What buyer wouldn’t welcome some help with those teeth-gritting closing costs (legal, title, filing fees, etc.) that, according to a Freddy Mac estimate, typically run between 2 percent to 7 percent of the loan amount?

Do read the rest, but that one is far and away a buyer favorite incentive.

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