June 25, 2010

REDUCED tag – value or NO value?

Recently the HAR.com real estate website made modifications to their listing price reduction feature. The modification allows buyers to search for homes with any price reduction instead of just homes that have been reduced in price by 5% or more. Now, any listing that has been reduced in price will have a reduced tag and will show the […]

June 13, 2010

When are you in contract?

Our Spring Texas real estate contracts have many dates listed in them with the most important date of them all being the date of the contract itself. The contract date (a.k.a. effective date) is the starting point for all the other actions in the contract that are specified to be done in X days. The contract […]

June 9, 2010

Automatic email notifications and missed opportunities

Over 90% of home buyers are searching for Spring Texas homes for sale on the Internet. Ninety percent of home buyers is a powerful number. But home buyers are doing much more than just searching for homes on the Internet. They are also looking at photos, mapping locations, viewing virtual tours, viewing YouTube videos, and setting up […]

May 31, 2010

Is your home’s listing on page 1 or page 200 of Google?

How do buyers find Spring Texas real estate? They Google. When it comes to search there is none more powerful. When home buyers are googling moving to Spring Texas, Spring Texas subdivisions, blogs on Spring Texas real estate or a home’s pysical address what will they find? Will it be your home they find or a home […]

May 24, 2010

Realtor.com iPhone APP and your listing

Did you know that since its launch in 2007 over 200 million iPhones have been sold? What does the millions of iPhone users have to do with the listing of your Spring Texas house? A lot. The percentage of home buyers using the Internet to search for Spring Texas homes for sale has been steadily increasing over the years. According to […]

May 19, 2010

Real Estate negotiations – business or personal?

Negotiating the sell or purchase of Spring Texas real estate is vastly different than other business negotiations. Yes, there are some similarities between real estate and business negotiations. They both involve a contract and require give and take between people or corporations. But that’s where the similarity ends between real estate and business negotiations. Business negotiations are just that business. It’s nothing personal […]

May 15, 2010

Top 5 things you can do to sell your house faster

The busiest time of the year for the Spring Texas real estate market are the months of May, June, and July. Since we are already half way through the month of May, you don’t have time to waste if you want to get your house sold this summer. Here are 5 things you can do to […]

May 13, 2010

Homebuyers tax credits have ended. Now what?

April 30th, 2010 has come and gone and with it the expiration of home buyers tax credits. Well almost .. as the tax credit does continue until April 30, 2011 for qualified military personnel but for the majority of home buyers the fat lady has sung and the party is over. Will the expiration of the home buyers tax credit […]

April 23, 2010

Is your home’s MLS listing costing you buyers?

If you have your house on the Spring Texas real estate market, you need to check the accuracy of the information contained in your listing. Since none of us are perfect including Realtors, mistakes are made and will continue to be made. Every day I run across listings in our MLS with errors or incomplete data. If […]

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