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Pricing Your Home...Or The Pitfalls of Overpricing Your HouseBuying real estate is often an emotional decision, but when selling real estate you need to remove emotion from the equation.  You need to think of your house as a marketable commodity and the price you put on your commodity is very imp...

 Many homeowners expect their listing agent to do the same things that a selling agent does - find someone to buy their home.  After all, they do the things you expect if they were searching for buyers.  A sign goes up in the front yard.  Ads are placed in the local newspapers and real estate mag...

The Basics of Marketing Your HomeYour REALTOR®'s marketing efforts and considerations will include advertising, showing the property, how long the house has been on the market and whether you're buying another home. Your home should be listed, whenever possible, through a Multiple Listing Service...

  How Buyers Search For Homes Information Sources Home buyers have a variety of information sources available to them in their home search. Eighty-five % reported that they used a real estate agent as a source of information, with little difference in usage between first-time and repeat buyers.  ...