When you are actively looking for a new home, your agent will set you up to receive email notifications as listings in your target area come onto the market. There will be the basic MLS information with descriptions and details, and, most important, a map pinpointing the exact location of each ...
Continue ReadingEach day, you get an email with multiple listing service information for homes that the computer thinks might meet your criteria. So how do you figure out which homes actually do fit your wish list without visiting them in person? Here are a few hints: We used to have to ...
Continue ReadingWhat’s a View Worth? My first condo won me over with a spectacular view of Rock Creek Park and the National Cathedral. I could look out any window from my top floor unit and see neighborhood dogs chasing frisbees, and the season changes were stunning. When it finally sold, the view was ...
Continue ReadingWhen someone asks a real estate agent if this is a good time to buy or sell a house, the answer is almost always a resounding “Yes!” That answer is programmed into our brains on our first day of real estate school, and throughout our careers, the Yes is reinforced. Sometimes ...
Continue ReadingWhen I lived in New York, my apartment could have been the set for the old classic, “Barefoot in the Park”. It was the top floor of an old brownstone at 46 East 83rd Street, just off Madison Avenue. The address was very posh. The apartment was not. I learned ...
Continue ReadingTheir ads are all over your television screen. You see buyers swooning all over the house of their dreams. And then there is a voice in the background telling them how important it is to have their mortgage lined up so they can take on the other buyers (some of whom ...
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