August 22nd, 2022 at 11:00 am
If you’re ready to upgrade houses, move to a new location, or even purchase your first or second home, what’s the best way to approach it this year? While the real estate market settles into a post-pandemic state, every potential home buyer needs to be aware of financial and market trends.
This is especially true in hot house hunting markets like southern California, where housing is at a premium. Let’s dive into what to look for when buying a house in 2022, and how to prepare for it.
August 17th, 2022 at 11:00 am
This gorgeous Mediterranean-villa-style home in tranquil Santa Ynez was built in 2011 and extensively renovated in 2022. It boasts views of hillsides and neighboring vineyards, a private pond, swimming pool, lush grounds and a producing Sangiovese vineyard.
(more…)August 3rd, 2022 at 11:00 am
This Tudor-inspired home presents a rare opportunity to live on the crest of fabled Appian Way in storied Laurel Canyon, overlooking the vast expanse of Los Angeles.
(more…)August 1st, 2022 at 11:00 am
If you’re thinking about selling your home, it might not be as simple as putting it on the market and waiting for the bids to pile up. Instead, you may have to put forth some extra effort to show your prospective buyers just how valuable your property is.
Enter: home staging.
The goal of staging a home for sale isn’t necessarily to put your personal tastes on display, but rather to make the space appeal to the right audience. To give your property the freshening up it needs to impress even the pickiest of buyers, we’ll be diving into eight helpful tips.
But first, let’s dive into what home staging means and why it could play an integral role in unlocking a new level of selling potential.
(more…)August 1st, 2022 at 11:00 am
Buying things is normally a pretty straightforward exchange: a seller puts a price on something, a buyer pays the price, and the seller gives the thing to the buyer. Of course, real estate doesn’t work quite so simply. There’s often more than one potential buyer in the mix, prices get negotiated, and even when a buyer and seller agree to terms, the house may not be sold.
That leads us to the issue of under contract vs pending and what those terms mean in real estate.
Sale pending vs. under contract both refer to periods when a buy and seller have agreed to terms but before the house is officially sold. At a glance, when a home is listed as “pending,” that means the home is in the final stages of a sale. If a home is “under contract,” there are still a few details that the seller and the buyer are waiting to finalize (such as appraisal value), before the sale can continue into the pending sale stage.
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