I know. Interest rates remain high and buyers are deflated. But once interest rates go down again, there will be another challenge.
Generally speaking, interest rates and home prices behave like a seesaw. When rates go up, prices typically start going down. This is because fewer people are looking to buy. Demand decreases and prices drop in [...]
When I was younger, my friends and I would always read the section of Glamour magazine called Glamour Dos and Don’ts, and we were always discovering that something we thought was a good fashion choice was inadvertently backfiring. As an homage to my favorite Glamour column, I’m going to talk about some Dos and Don’ts of house shopping, little adjustments everyone can "do" to make the process go more [...]
It seems as if I am asked this question at least once a day.
In the past, this might be a discouraged lament of an impatient client who could not find a house that they wanted to buy. But lately, it’s a legitimate question that nearly everyone is asking, so I’m going to explain some of the dynamics at work that have resulted in this [...]
I recently wrote a post about how houses don’t need to be perfect in order to be sold – or bought! Yet, many buyers seem to turn away from a home that isn’t a turnkey sale. Why is that?
In my experience, it’s usually because people who are new to homeownership don’t yet have the knowledge base to understand what’s a big problem and what’s a little [...]
As interest rates began to rise, I started getting a question I haven’t heard since the beginning of the pandemic: Is it STILL a good time to sell my house?
The short answer is: Yes!
There is an assumption that rising rates have pushed prices down. However, that has not yet happened.
There was a house on the market as recently as last week [...]
Tired of losing offers in a seller’s market? Here are 5 strategies to help buyers win.
In the last two years, buying a home has gone from finding the right house to finding a way to win a bid on a house. And the truth is, people who are the most savvy and flexible are often the ones whose offer ends up being accepted. In light of that, I’ve [...]
I was recently given an award by the New Jersey Association of Realtors – their Circle of Excellence Award, which is based on an agent’s sales performance for the year. This was my first year as a Platinum winner – the highest [...]
We are in a fierce seller’s market. This is no surprise to anyone. When the market is like this, an offer needs to be competitive, obviously, but also it needs to be bulletproof once the offer has been [...]
One of my clients purchased a single-family home in Montclair recently and left a really nice review about working with me. Part of what he said was this:
“Lina combines 3 qualities that made working with her perfect for us:
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