After watching the market numbers over the past 12 months, a solid (positive) pattern has been set that appears to be spreading across the nation. The housing market, for all practical purposes, has shifted from a Buyers Market to a Sellers Market. In the five-county Southeast Michigan market, 84% of all sales are homes that [...]

Thinking of owning a rental property? Being a landlord can be well worth it financially, but how do you know if you’re ready to take the plunge? Who’s The Boss? – Managing Your Rental Property Are you going to manage your rental property yourself or will you hire a property management company to manage it [...]

An old rule of thumb in real estate is that your first offer it usually your best offer. In my experience this is true more times than not. Several times I have had clients send stiff counteroffers back to prospective buyers only to never hear from them again. Then after much more time on the [...]

If you are selling your home, then you probably have read all the tips for staging a home. However, you should also evaluate your home for things that could make a potential homebuyer leave your home quickly. 1. Not–so-nice DIY projects. You may have saved thousands by remodeling the kitchen or adding on an entire [...]

The first quarter County Market Reports are further proof of what we are seeing every day: Sales are picking up and inventory is getting scarce. Seven of the eight markets tracked showed sales unit gains over last year. Declining home inventories are moving all areas closer to a Seller’s Market, with many of the lower [...]

As the market recovers, there will be fewer months where we beat the prior year. Such is the case with March 2012. In terms of new contracts written, numbers continued to show improvement over March of last year. Across all of our markets Closed Sales were down just a bit from last year. This is [...]

We all want to be wise investors, but our brains get in the way. Behavioral scientists tell us we are hard-wired to assume the future will be like the past. These tendencies can cause us to miss bargains in real estate. Here are five reasons why buying a house now is a good investment: 1. [...]

So you’ve decided to sell your home and have a fairly good idea of what you think it is worth. Being a sensible home seller, you schedule appointments with three local listing agents who’ve been hanging stuff on your front doorknob for years. Each Realtor comes prepared with a “Competitive Market Analysis” on fancy paper [...]

Most people know they need to clean and declutter when they want to sell their home. They put pots of flowers on the front porch and bake cookies. But they still miss sales by failing to fine-tune the presentation. Here are six things you can do to make your home stand out: 1. Get an [...]

MyFoxDetroit Cool off on this unseasonably warm first day of spring with a free ice cream cone, thanks to your local Michigan Dairy Queen owner. On Tuesday more than 50 area Dairy Queen stores are participating in “free cone day,” a fundraiser for Beaumont Children’s Hospital, which is the southeast Michigan affiliate of the Children’s [...]