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3 Things To Remember Before Making Any Updates When Selling Your Home
If you're planning to sell your home, just thinking about the preparations you need for your property can easily become overwhelming. Because of this, many sellers tend to overspend on repairs and updates that won’t help sell their homes for more. They feel like they have to fix ...
U.S Housing Market Continues to Slow

Affordability challenges have priced many buyers out of the market this year, and buyers who do succeed in purchasing a home are finding that the costs of homeownership have increased significantly, with monthly mortgage payments more than 55% higher than a year ago, according to the ...

What To Know About Cash Offers When Selling Your Home
If you're considering selling your home, you might have encountered the term “all-cash offer.” Or maybe as you’re driving around town or scrolling online, you’ve seen advertisements from businesses that say they “buy homes for cash.” What does it mean? ...
Summer 2022 Has Been a Season of Change

Summer 2022 has been a season of change for the U.S. real estate market. With housing affordability at a 33-year low, existing-home sales have continued to soften nationwide, falling 5.9% month-to-month and 20.9% year-over-year as of last measure, according to the National Association ...

What To Know If You're Looking To Buy A Home in a Wildfire-Prone Area
A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal finds that wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent, with recent years seeing record-breaking wildfire seasons due to climate change and land use change. An estimated 4.5 million homes in the U.S. ...
Buyers, Beware of Making These Mistakes During The Home Inspection
After what could be months of browsing online, numerous home showings, and countless updates from your real estate agent about new listings, you're ecstatic to have finally found the home you want to buy. You put down an offer, and the seller has accepted. All the hard work is done, right? Not ...
U.S Housing Market Continues to Cool

The U.S. housing market has continued to cool, as rising mortgage rates and record-high sales prices have stifled affordability, weakening demand and pricing out a multitude of buyers. Nationally, median household income has failed to keep pace with increasing mortgage payments, with ...

7 Ways To Minimize Unnecessary Costs When Moving
Whatever the reason behind your move, whether you're buying your first home, you’ve got a new job in a different city, or you want to be closer to your loved ones and relatives, among others, relocating is no small venture. There are many factors to consider: finding the time and energy ...
Is the Housing Market Slowing Down?

What Does Rising Inflation, Soaring Home Prices, and Increased Mortgage Rates Mean For Real Estate? To help quell inflation, which reached 8.6% as of last measure in May, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point in June, the largest interest rate ...

Summer Is The Best Time to Tackle These 5 Home Improvement Projects
If you're a homeowner, aside from lounging by a swimming pool or throwing a few backyard barbecues, the warmer months are also the perfect time to tackle some improvement projects around your house and yard. The beautiful weather conditions give you ample time to assess, repair, and make ...
7 Listing Photo Mistakes To Avoid When Selling Your Home
A photograph can be worth more than a thousand words. This is especially true in real estate. You might have the most desirable house in the neighborhood, but if you do not take and post the right pictures, your home will not appeal to as many buyers. In the 2021 National Association of ...
Why You Should Start Your Home Selling Journey By Decluttering
If you're planning to put your house on the market anytime soon, the biggest task isn’t to address repairs or start renovations, as these require lengthy planning since they can be time-consuming and costly. The main task you should prioritize as a potential home seller is ...
Is the Real Estate Market Cooling?

After two years of record-setting activity, there are signs the housing market might be cooling. High
home prices and a surge in mortgage interest rates are slowing buyer activity, with home sales declining
for the third consecutive month under the weight of soaring homeownership ...

These 3 Organizing Tips Can Actually Cause More Harm Than Good
Searching for inspiration to help you organize your home isn't difficult nowadays. There is already an abundance of tips, tricks, and strategies from TV shows, magazines, and the internet to motivate you into taking on such a challenging task. The images of tidy closets or a perfectly ...
What Does it Mean to Be "House Poor" and How to Avoid it?
If you're a first-time buyer who's only just started your house-hunting journey, you might have heard the expression, house poor. Many of us are familiar with the term and understand it carries negative connotations, yet we do not know what it means.  ...
Finding The One: 4 Ways House-Hunting is Like Dating
It's love at first sight. The one that made your heart skip a beat. Maybe it was the charmer, the one needing a little bit of work, or even the one that got away. No, we are not talking about a love match. We are talking about the house hunting journey. Finding your perfect dream home is ...
Mortgage Rates Increase but Listings Sell for Top Dollar

Median Sales Prices in Washtenaw County increased 12.4 percent to $422,500 for Single Family homes and 14.8 percent to $280,000 for Townhouse/Condo homes. Days on Market decreased 32.0 percent for Single Family homes and 52.8 percent for Townhouse/Condo homes. Months Supply of Inventory ...


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