Mar 31st 2011 12:00PM
Selling your home can make you feel like you're living in a fishbowl, with potential buyers and real estate agents evaluating, judging and otherwise picking apart the place you've called home for years. Just before the actual sale comes the most intense scrutiny of all: the home inspection. A pre-sale home inspection is... Continue Reading »
Feb 17th 2011 3:33PM
Would you buy a condo at a book signing? I pondered that very question the other day after attending one for Laurie David, ex-wife of Larry David, who has written The Family Dinner, a how-to guide on reclaiming the family dinner hour. It was an intimate event, held in a posh highrise apartment near Wall Street in... Continue Reading »
Jan 13th 2011 4:37PM
Selling a home isn't getting any easier. But in Salem, Mass., the historical home of 17th century witch hunts, the process has taken a ghoulish turn. In Salem, and some other communities around the country, buyers are increasingly turning to witches, pyschics and feng shui experts to purge foreclosed properties of evil... Continue Reading »
Jan 3rd 2011 5:22PM
The housing market faces high hopes -- and plenty of handwringing -- in 2011. Tara-Nicholle Nelson of our sister site, WalletPop.com, bravely sorts through the year's possible trends to pluck some likely outcomes for home sellers. Past is prologue, they say. And that's certainly true when looking forward to what the... Continue Reading »
Dec 17th 2010 9:46AM
U.S. home sales are sagging -- but not with Australians, mate. "For the cost of a new car in Australia, you could own a home in the U.S.A," says Australian real estate agent Vincent Selleck (pictured left), who is on a campaign to recruit buyers from his country to invest in American homes that they can open up as... Continue Reading »
