Category Archives: Listing tips

Sweeten your deal in a buyers market

In a “buyers market”, if you want to ensure that your home sells in a timely matter, you need to offer more than competing properties. Some things to consider would be:

Increase the value of your home with improvements

Although I have commented on things you can do to help your home sell quickly, the Homegain calculator has been able to quantify the top ten home improvements and what will get you the best bang for your buck. It would be interesting to see how they came up with these numbers, but I thought [...]

Online classifieds for real estate

I checked out some of the tools available for consumers to search for and list homes for sale, and must say that some of them are interesting. Sites like oodle, propsmart, and trulia all provide interesting interfaces to look for properties, and in many cases post ads for properties for free. Of course, its impossible [...]

My quick review of Zillow.com

As you may be aware, the founder of Expedia.com recently put into beta a site called Zillow.com. This site aims to give homeowners free estimates of what their home is worth.