Winter is and always has been a historically slow time for real estate. It’s cold outside, and people generally don’t like trooping through the snow and ice to check out houses. Sellers are less likely to list, and buyers less likely to buy, because who wants to deal with closing ...

It’s a curious wildcard when you are buying a home: a house with an in-law suite, or mother-in-law apartment, or casita, or ohana house. No matter the name, these dwellings, which may or may not be attached to your main house, and which are intended for an older relative to ...

If you’ve purchased an older home, one update you are probably considering are new windows. Old houses tend to have single-paned windows with leaky aluminum frames that let the heat and cold in and send your air-conditioning and heating out. Windows are costly, however. Are they worth the investment? And ...

The kitchen is the heart of the home, or so everyone says. Sure, we all dream of having an enormous farmhouse kitchen a la Joanna Gaines, but the fact of the matter is that sometimes we have to deal with reality, and sometimes reality means a tiny kitchen. Usually this ...

Maybe you aren’t aware of it, but it could be time to sell your house. Not because you need to because of relocation, school district, or other necessities, but because sometimes it's just time. If you have been wondering if the forces of the universe are lining up to ...

I doubt that anyone goes into selling their home willfully wanting to screw up the deal. By putting that “For Sale” sign on your lawn, you are pretty much announcing to the world your wishes to sell your house, preferably quickly and painlessly. It’s possible, however, that you are sabotaging ...

The kitchen is the heart of the home, and at no time is this fact more noticeable than when you’re trying to sell your home. Buyers will usually make a beeline for the kitchen when they first enter a prospective new home, say experts, and they will be able to ...

Painting is one of those home improvement tasks that a lot of people take on themselves, instead of hiring a pro. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s always great when you can save money and get your hands dirty helping to make your house beautiful. What a lot of ...

Most people labor under the disillusion that every dollar they put into “improving” their home will pay off when they go to sell it. This is especially true of people who buy a home expressly for the purpose of flipping it and selling it for a profit. For the most ...

Who doesn’t love a gift with purchase? These types of deals are the reason people turn out by the droves on Black Friday, even if the free item is something puny like touchscreen mittens (been there, done that, Radio Shack). There’s nothing in sales like making a buyer believe that ...