Home staging is simply the preparation of a home for sale in the real estate market. The goal of this home staging is to make the house more appealing, thereby helping in selling the house more quickly and also at a fair price. The key to staging is to improve the home’s appeal by turning the home into a welcoming and attractive environment for potential home buyers.   Search Realty provides three staging tips that if implemented, will help sell a home for sale faster and at a fair price.   DE-CLUTTER   Home buyers want two main things out ...

Selling a home isn’t the easiest of tasks. But it doesn’t have to be the hardest as well. Search Realty provides a list of ten things that every home seller should know when putting a home for sale on the real estate market.   5. De-personalize Pack up those family photos and personal belongings. These should be put away so as to avoid distracting potential home buyers. Religious objects fall under this category as well. A potential home buyer is deciding on what could be the biggest financial decision they have ever made, and even the smallest of things could ...

Selling a home can seem as simple as contacting a realtor, and then sitting back and waiting for the offers to roll in. However, the home seller should be aware that the real estate market fluctuates like any other. Thus, it is crucial that the home seller be prepared, as only through proper preparation can the home seller assure that the best possible offers are obtained for the home for sale.   There are three key things that a home seller should know when selling a home. These steps are preparing the home, marketing the home, and finding the ...

Any home improvement will inevitably raise the home value of a home, but there are certain renovations that will add more value than others on today’s real estate market. The mistake that most home owner make is to think that any home improvement will drastically raise the price of the home, but in reality, there are only a substantial few improvements that are needed to raise the home value drastically, while others, although costly, may raise the home's value, but not significantly.   Search Realty advises on the three main home improvements that can drastically increase a home’s real estate ...

An important question in the mind of home owners is how long they should stay in their current home, in order to build up equity, before dipping into the real estate market and investing in a new home. A good approximation would be five years, as this gives the home owner enough time to build up sufficient equity to cover the future costs of closing on a home while still having enough equity available to make the purchase an affordable option.   Search Realty offers three important tips to those home owners thinking about investing in a new home.   ...

Home buyers will almost always be in competition with other buyers when it’s a sellers’ market. Obviously, for the home seller, this is the prime position to be in. For the home buyer however, it can be a frustrating, hair-pulling situation. In a sellers’ market, a property’s asking price and its selling price can be vastly different. Because there are multiple interested buyers, the selling price can be well above the original listing price.   Often in a sellers’ market, a home owner will be smart enough to develop a strategy with their real estate agent to initially under-price their ...

A good way to break into the home market is taking a look at some great fixer-uppers that obviously have the potential to become either a dream home or a profitable resale. Some of these older homes simply need a fresh coat of paint, new carpet, new blinds, curtains, or even new flooring to revive the home and the interest of other home buyers.   Search Realty reveals three advantages that come with purchasing a fixer-upper home.   1.     LOW COST   It isn’t simply investors who are purchasing older homes to ‘flip’, but rather a lot of single people ...

Selling a home takes more than just contacting a real estate agent. It takes a well-designed marketing plan that strategically assesses the real estate market to evaluate the best way to sell a home for sale.   Search Realty is in the business of real estate and knows exactly what it takes to sell a home. They believe in three key tips, that when utilized, can ensure the not only is a home for sale sold quickly, but at fair market value or more.   1.     MLS® ®   The first tip is MLS® ®. MLS® ® is Multiple Listing ...

Search Realty understands the stress that comes with buying a new home, or the stress involved with any real estate transaction for that matter. Once a purchase has been made, the move has to occur and that can lead to additional complications and much added stress as well.   Search Realty provides three secrets to reduce the stress of a move and make it a successful one.   1.    If planning to use a moving company, be sure to contact the company well in advance. Moving companies, especially during busy seasons, can be backlogged with appointments, and it is best to ...

Finding a new home is an exciting experience, but one that can be nerve-wracking at the same time. Search Realty realizes that first time home buyers know exactly what they want in their first home and can become extremely particular. At the same time though, Search Realty advises those first time home buyers that unless their first home is being built from scratch, it’s nearly impossible to find everything desired.   Also, if the first time home buyer is looking for a home in a seller's market where homes are being snatched up as soon as they go on the ...