Everyone loves the idea of indoor-outdoor living. And when you’re selling a home, staging your outdoor space can be an important way to show off one of your home’s best features while attracting prospective buyers. Whether your property has a sweeping lawn or a small city balcony, Redfin suggests some ways you can help buyers envision…
There are plenty of reasons to ponder the possibility of buying a house without your spouse. Basically, this means that although you two might live in the home together, only you would technically “take title” to the property—a fancy way to say that you own it and have your name on the deed. It’s legal—and more common than you…
Competition among buyers in many markets has gotten intense, so if you’re serious about homeownership, you’d better get your act together. To point you in the right direction, Realtor.com has prepared a road map of the typical steps you need to be aware of during the home-buying process. 1. Choose an agent The first step in the home-buying…
Realtor.com has launched a new home search by school boundaries to help buyers narrow their search to specific elementary, middle and high schools. Schools continue to play a major role in how buyers search for homes. More than 40 percent of potential homebuyers with children would use a school-led home search feature, according to Realtor.com. This is…
Thirty-three percent of people who bought a home during the past year made an offer without first seeing the home in person, according to a May survey of 3,350 homebuyers and sellers commissioned by Redfin. In a similar survey completed last year, 19 percent of buyers said they had offered sight-unseen. Among recent millennial homebuyers,…