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Choosing paint colors can be highly personal, especially when it lines the walls of your home. Here are seven things to consider before you start painting.

Staging your home is a proven strategy for speeding up the sales process. It can even help boost your home's value when offers start coming in. Here are some quick tips for helping you along with the staging process.

Are you ready for move in day? Chances are you've been running around getting everything in order for this big day. It's going to be exciting and a lot of work. Here are 10 tips (and a bonus one) to make moving-in go smoothly.

As the events of the last few years in the real estate industry show, people forget about the tremendous financial responsibility of purchasing a home at their peril. Here are a few tips for dealing with the dollar signs so that you can take down that “for sale” sign on…

Selling a house isn’t exactly like selling any other piece of property; there’s no reference book on how much a home should cost because home value depends on so many different factors that vary widely from residence to residence. For this reason, when many…

In markets where all-cash offers are common, it can be easy for buyers to become discouraged early on in their home purchase process. After all, how is an everyday buyer supposed to compete with a cash offer on a home? Most of us don't have several hundred thousand dollars…

When you make the decision to become a homeowner, there is a series of additional decisions that you'll need to make before you reach that final goal and cross the threshold of your new front door. One of the most important decisions in that series is which type of mortgage…

Your kitchen is more than just the heart of your home. It’s become the hot-spot of most households as a multi-functional space for entertaining, work, of course, dining. A well-designed kitchen will go a long way in increasing your home’s value and upping the…

Real estate investing is gaining popularity, and if you've been giving it some thought, this guide will give you an overview. The goal of any real estate investor is typically to make money. This means purchasing an investment property at a good price so you can rent it out…

The final walk-through is an exciting time for buyers: The house is almost yours! It can be tempting to spend the time set aside for the walk-through mentally planning where you'll place your furniture and hang your wall art -- but there are some things you should make time…

There's one question that real estate agents get asked all the time: "How's the market?" It's a difficult question to answer because the most accurate response depends on a variety of factors -- whether you're a buyer or a seller; what price point is most relevant to your…

As the proud owner of a condo, you already know the ways in which living in a condo are different than the typical single-family home experience. But how does that impact what happens when the time comes to sell your condo and move on?