Your Home Isn’t Selling. What to Do?
Cutting your asking price is the last thing you want to do – and it’s also the last thing you should do. There are numerous other options to try first.
How to Defuse Home-Sale Deal Killers
About 95 percent of all deals have issues that can prevent them from closing, but 90 percent of the time, these deals will close if you do the right things.
How to Fix a Stale Listing
It can be costly to let a listing linger longer than 60 days. But delisting and price cuts both leave money on the table. Before you do that, try these tips for reviving your listing.
How to Handle Sellers Who Want Too Much for Their Home
Overpricing a listing is the kiss of death these days. How prepared are you to meet these common seller mistakes that will leave their home languishing unsold?
Your Listing Isn’t Selling? Here’s What to Do
In almost every case, the cause is due to at least one of five key factors and you have to understand them all to pinpoint problems.
Don’t Dismiss Lowball Offers
You’ve finally gotten an offer on your house. But it’s ridiculously low – tens of thousands under your asking price. So, what do you do?
New Money Laundering Rules Make Agents Report Cash Home Sales
The Treasury Department has issued regulations aimed at making it harder for criminals to launder money by paying cash for residential real estate.
Basic Customer Service Creates Big Opening for Agents
Nearly half of online property inquiries are simply ignored, according to new research from real estate analyst and consultant Mike DelPrete.
Overpriced Listings Become Stale
Right now, according to Redfin, more houses have been on the market for 30 days or more than any other time in recent memory
Casual Chitchat Can Cost You a Real Estate Deal
Loose lips can not only sink ships, they can also scuttle real estate transactions. That applies to what home sellers say on social media as well as during a showing.
I Have to Sign a Buyer Representation Agreement to See a Property? No Way!
The proposed settlement in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuits has created problems for seller’s agents as well as the more obvious questions buyer’s agents face.
Sellers: Follow the Golden Rule
The manner in which sellers leave their homes for the next owners says a lot about their character. But considerate sellers exist, and they get rewarded by the housing market.
Put Your Listings to the Nose Test
Nothing turns up buyers’ noses faster than a smelly house. They walk in, stop, take a whiff and are ready to turn around and leave. Some won’t even go beyond the front door.
Local Real Estate Tech Startup Final Offer Closes Series A Funding Round
Final Offer, a listing tech startup that’s been gaining steam in the Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. markets announced it had crossed a major milestone this week.
The Rules of the Road for New – and Not-So-New – Agents
Top producers’ most important skillset is their ability to build strong connections with the potential leads they meet. Here are 10 ways to do what they do, and achieve similar success.
Hunting for Sellers in a Tight Market
Alison Socha’s 23 years in real estate started with a personal connection. As a teenager, she babysat Linda O’Koniewski’s children long before the now-CEO of Leading Edge Real Estate had worked her way into her leadership position.
Your Home Sale Fell Through. Now What?
Once in a blue moon, a cancellation works out to the seller’s advantage. For the most part, though, sellers have no choice but to grin and bear it. The first step is to determine what went wrong.
Too Many Counteroffers Spoil the Pot
The toughest part of buying a house isn’t finding the ideal place or locking down financing. It’s actually making the offer – not just the monetary part, mind you, but deciding what to include and what to leave out.
Listing Tech Company Final Offer Returns to Boston with Revamped Service
One year, 155 basis points on the average 30-year mortgage’s interest rate and nearly 2,000 fewer Massachusetts home listings later, the Realtor-funded startup is back with a new version of its service and growth ambitions.
Sellers Should Consider a Buydown to Snag a Buyer
With the inventory of unsold houses rising on a daily basis, it’s time for sellers to consider taking a page out of the homebuilders’ playbook – especially when it comes to financing.
