by kramoltz@hotmail.com | May 19, 2020 | Selling Your Home
When you hear from the media that it’s a sellers market that’s still not a reason to overprice your home. An intelligent price will be based on recent sales of comparable properties in the immediate area. If you price your home at or close to market value,...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jan 14, 2020 | Selling Your Home
You need to know what your home is really worth before you put it on the market. All the pictures, advertising and other marketing efforts will be useless if the price is not right. There are a number of free online web evaluation system such as Zillow.com (or...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jun 6, 2016 | Mortgages + Lending, Real Estate Facts & Figures
MarketWatch.com reports that the number of appraisers is down 20% from 2007, and the number in that profession is expected to decline steeply in the next five years. Residential has been hit harder than commercial, with predictions that the decrease could continue by...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 17, 2015 | Home Ownership, Selling Your Home
Zillow is a source for much misinformation when it comes to market value in the metro Phoenix area. “Zillow’s price forecasts are for entertainment purposes,” said Mike Orr, ASU’s real estate expert. Zillow has been “wildly...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Canada and Canadians
Part 1. The Canadian real estate market has been very strong for a long time. Continued rising prices would appear to be unsustainable, as they can’t continue indefinitely. We learned that lesson in Arizona when our real estate boom busted. But Canadians claim that...
