Lets Talk Real Estate! " LOOKS MATTER" When researchers analyzed images of both the interiors and exteriors of homes that were for sale between 2008 and 2015, they found that looks do matter. Reviewing these images and assessor data, researchers found that obvious factors such as "location" and "timing" accounted for about 30% of a [...]
Lets Talk Real Estate! "DOES THE NEW TAX LAW HAVE AN IMPACT ON SELLERS?" While the 2018 Tax Cits and Job Acts created some changes in the mortgage deduction (including reduction of the amount of a mortgage that can be deducted), there are no changes to the taxation on the sale of a home. Although [...]
Lets Talk Real Estate! "INCENTIVIZED TO SELL" To sweeten the deal for a buyer, a seller might consider an "interest-rate buy down. " This offer to "pay points" involves the seller's willingness to buy a certain number of percentage points of the sales price to be paid to the buyer's lender as discount points that [...]
