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  • Is now the time to sell?

    My answer is an emphatic "Yes".  All of us (including myself) want to return to the market values of 5 and 6 years ago before we'll agree that it's time sell our homes.  All of us need to let that go.  It will be many years before our current homes will again be worth what they were back then.  We can no ...
    Posted to Alicia Garatoni (Weblog) by 533275 on February 3, 2011
  • McMansion out, value in

    Trends change every year however the ever larger home was popular for several years during the housing bubble.  Today, value is in.  Homeowners are looking for smaller, more efficient spaces, built-ins rather than furniture and more neutral colors.  A recent survey of 2000 consumers conducted by Better Homes and Garden found that ...
    Posted to Alicia Garatoni (Weblog) by 533275 on January 26, 2011
  • Be Market-Smart: Dos and Don’ts for Home Sellers and Buyers

    by Dan Steward.  Reprinted from RisMedia's Today's Real Estate Advisor October 13, 2010—It would be unrealistic to say that the real estate market is utterly rosy right now, but neither is it thorn-filled by any means. In fact, things are decidedly looking up: July got some good news, when the National Association of Realtors ...
    Posted to Alicia Garatoni (Weblog) by 533275 on October 15, 2010
  • Things heat up as banks may have "cut corners" in foreclosing on homes.

    Most likely you've been hearing reports over the last week or two about concerns surrounding the legality of certain foreclosures by several of the major national lenders including JP Morgan Chase, Ally Financial (formerly GMAC) and Bank of America.  The primary issue raised is that banks may have used fraudulent documents ...
    Posted to Alicia Garatoni (Weblog) by 533275 on October 6, 2010