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Homeowner Insurance: 7 Tips for Texans
Texas Homeowners know that insurance prices have risen dramatically. If you’re considering a home purchase, here are some suggestions to help you manage the high cost of homeowner’s insurance.
Landscaping: Little Touches Make the Difference
The right landscape design can make all the difference to a prospective buyer, especially when it’s beautifully and carefully executed. Here are some ways to add appeal to your home and yard.
17 Simple Things to Make Your Home More Marketable
You don’t have to spend a fortune to market your home in most cases. Here’s a quick list of some essential tips for getting your home market ready.
Selling Your Home? Less is Definitely More
Marketing means appealing to the broadest market possible —- and removing some of your possessions and changing to a neutral decor will open up your home to more potential buyers. Here are a few tips to make your home more attractive to a potential buyer.
Selling Your Home? Staging Your Home to Sell
You know that everything in your home should be clean and orderly, but aside from that, how do you broaden the appeal of your home to today’s home buyers.
For Sale By Owner: 10 Steps to Prepare for Do-It-Yourself Home Selling
If FSBO home selling is for you, start the planning process with these 10 steps to Do-It-Yourself home selling. In today’s marketplace, more buyers than ever are working with agents, so it’s important to plan your selling decision.
For Sale By Owner: Tips on How to Price Your Home
What’s the the most prevalent mistake made by FSBOs? Overpricing your home wastes time and resources. Pricing your home according to market conditions is essential selling, and since more buyers than ever are working with a Realtor, they come to the table informed and prepared with market-value information.
17 Simple Things to Make Your Home More Marketable
You don’t have to spend a fortune to market your home in most cases. Here’s a quick list of some essential tips for getting your home market ready.
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Are you choosing from half of the homes on the market?
When you were searching for homes in Houston, maybe you didn’t realize that you were viewing a limited number of listings on nationally-know web sites like Google, Zillow, or Yahoo, but a recent survey suggests just that. The WAV group studied “advertising web sites” and found that many lacked the most up-to-date listing information, with some sites missing between 31% and 64% of the listings, according to their survey results as reported in TexasRealtor Magazine.
Why should I pay asking price if the housing market has dropped 15%
Today’s Houston real estate asking prices are derived from local market conditions based on comparable sales prices paid by home buyers in a particular neighborhood. Despite recent sales volume declines, prices are holding steady across Houston. While that may not be true for all Houston area neighborhoods, there hasn’t been an overall 15% drop in Houston home values. The housing supply is growing — tending to favor home buyers — but it hasn’t increased enough to force home sellers into large double-digit price reductions.
Houston Market Conditions
Buyer & Seller ResourcesSeptember 2008: Home sales down dramatically as Houston recovers from Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike’s impact on local housing sales was dramatic — power outages and property damages forced the postponement of real estate closings across the area. Houston’s residential real estate housing market sales were down significantly in September 2008 with a year-to-year sales decline of 29.5% — the lowest September sales volume in years. Nationally, sales for existing homes were up 5.57% in September.
Markets across the US experienced home price declines of up to 20% or more, while Houston’s median home price for existing single-family housing made modest gains throughout the current year. In September, the median price increased again — jumping 5% in year-to-year comparisons from $150,000 to $157,500. For the US market, the median home price declined 9.0% from $210,500 to $191,600 in year-to-year comparisons.
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- Home Buyers Acting On Lower Prices
- Getting a Mortgage Tougher for Buyers
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