Articles and News about Residential Real Estate
Choosing a home can feel overwhelming. Not only is a house the largest purchase you will probably ever make but also the home you choose will affect your life every day. However, if you want to know how to find your dream home, read on.
Did that headline grab you? It should! And it’s not an empty promise either. Our current real estate market in Louisville is hot, hot, hot!
As with any business where humans participate, there is a psychology involved. Real estate is no different.
In fact, it’s more varied and diverse because there are a larger number of roles interacting with the buying or selling of properties.
In this article, I’m going to look at the psychology of marketing real estate from the Listing Agent’s perspective. While in my home city’s market is tilted towards home sellers just a few short years back this wasn’t the case.
And even expert Realtors can learn a thing or two when it comes to such an incredibly complex entity we call home buyers.
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Anyone looking to purchase a new home should be very interested to know their credit score. After all, it’s integrally linked to today’s home buying process.
Any time Louisville receives national attention it makes me happy. Is it due to its great real estate conditions? That makes me ecstatic! As you might expect, the best values…
I generally write all of the articles posted here at Louisville Homes Blog. I do have guest writers from time to time as well. But rarely will I simply link to another site. Unless I find a post that’s simply outstanding.
One of the most popular questions I get is, “When is the best time to sell my home?” And it really increases as we get closer to Spring.
There’s a quick answer but where’s the fun in that? Instead, let’s look at the Top 10 tips that will help you answer this tricky question so you can better understand all the factors at play.
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Even if you just bought your new home, odds are you still have an eye on those features that disappeared. For whatever reason, we all constantly want more. So what are these must-have home features that people want? Keep reading!
Full disclosure, part Deux: I may be the Amur Leopard of the profession because I don’t lie and I’m a Realtor. So as you’re reading keep this in mind. Thanks!
When I first became a real estate agent, I was shocked to find out that public perception of real estate agents was low. But not just “low”… like only a few spots up from used car salesman.
Americans are very consumer conscious. It’s a fact. Whether it’s buying the tastiest beverage at Starbucks, or finding the best bang-for-your-buck flat screen at Best Buy, or even when it comes to buying a new home, we think to ourselves, “I’ve got this.” But when it comes to building a house, you might ask, “Do I Need a Realtor?”
We hear it all the time. Louisville new construction prices just keep going up, up, up! I’m looking at the numbers and it appears that this is the case.
Wide avenues, big homes, and beautiful gardens: the yard is as much a part of rural Americana as baseball games and BBQs. We spend a big portion of our lives enjoying campfires, splashing around in the pool, and enjoying peaceful evenings on the porch. But yards aren’t just about quintessential American life – in fact, they are a real estate investment that could make or break your next sale. Read on to learn more about selling your Louisville home.
According to recent data, home sales in 2015 have gone up in Louisville over the last few years. While this is great news overall, it carries with it the risk of listing agents getting sloppy with their marketing techniques. After all, if homes are practically “selling themselves” that doesn’t leave much incentive for agents to give it their best, does it?
When I was searching across the interwebs for the topic How to Become a Successful Real Estate Agent something occurred to me. One of the most searched-for themes on all of the Internet is “How do I become a successful…” and then different highly-searched things follow the words:
Hello and welcome to this full-featured, tell-all piece that will expose you to the truth behind popular real estate myths. Many of these widely held beliefs seem, at first blush, like common sense but I will bust these myths and explain what’s really going on.
