(ARA) - Selling your home can be a challenge that may seem especially daunting in a softer real estate market. If you decide now is the time to sell, there are several aspects that can make your home more attractive to potential buyers. Following this advice may help justify your asking price and attract buyers.
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The advantage typically tilts toward those buying homes in today’s housing market. Interest rates are low and housing inventories are up. But the tricky part for everyone is that buyers are often also the sellers and typically depend on selling their existing home to buy a new one. According to the National Association of Home [...]

Appraisals and inspections, marketing, renters, rehabs… it can all add up to a huge headache. But real estate investing is still exciting and lucrative. What to do? Consider investing in real estate-based financial instruments instead.
REITs
One of the oldest modern forms is a REIT — Real Estate Investment Trust. REITs are mutual funds that invest in [...]

Marketing is something everyone loves to hate, but you can’t get around the fact that very little gets sold without it.
Definitions vary, but marketing is roughly the development and execution of a strategy to sell something — which includes research, advertising, promotion and sales.
Good marketing starts with good research. Finding out current prices for comparable [...]

You want the most profit you can get for that property you sweat blood to buy. Is there anyway to improve your chances, without investing a lot more? Fortunately, there is.
Even a person not very skilled in carpentry, plumbing, and other traditional trades can improve the saleability of a property with modest effort and a [...]

According to a recent study in The Economist, residential property investment in developed countries amounted to $48 trillion, while commercial real estate investment (CREI) was ‘only’ $14 trillion. Though the number may be smaller, CREI is much more complex.
Real estate, unlike stocks or other investments, is always local — property is always somewhere, somewhere specific. [...]

For decades the way to finance a property purchase was 80-20, 20 percent down, 80 percent on loan. Certainly, there have been many who put more down, but 20 percent was considered the bare minimum. Happily, things have changed.
There are now a dozen or more ways to finance a property purchase, whether for pure investment [...]

Today, investing in Real Estate is easier and more profitable than ever. But even in a healthy market, with new tools to find and evaluate potentially profitable properties, you can lose a lot of money in a short time. To maximize the odds of winning, consider these tips…
The process of finding ‘diamonds in the rough’ [...]