home selling

With the Standard & Poor's downgrades, the declining stock market, the flat employment figures and Europe's fiscal woes, you might not expect much optimism in the housing market just now. But a few major metropolitan areas should see price increases in the next year, according to a new report.

Some recent reports on the real estate market show home prices starting to stabilize in many areas. Other data suggests the housing market has further to fall. But whichever direction the numbers are heading, there are few tenets that smart buyers and sellers should always follow.

In a piece on selling your home in a hurry, Money Magazine staff reporter Beth Braverman offers some good tips -- but then there's this clunker: "And set your home at the lowest end of its price range; a $299,000 home will seem expensive to a buyer in the $250,000 to $300,000 range, but a $301,000...

You may be hearing a lot about buying properties "short," like it's some modern-day Gold Rush, where homes are being offered for 50% off or more. Short-selling is when the bank agrees the home is worth less than what it was financed for. Having bid on a bank-owned property in the past year, I can...

If you've been trying to sell your house without any luck, you've probably gone everywhere for help.Perhaps you've read some how to sell your house books, for instance. (For instance, there's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging your Home to Sell by Julie Dana and Marcia Layton Turner.)Or maybe...

Earlier today, I took my four-year-old to her preschool picnic, one that they hold every year after the last day of school and right before the summer begins. And as I stood there, underneath a canopy of blue sky, watching mostly three and four-year-olds dashing about, scampering on playground...

Our man Abelicio Padilla has been blogging about his personal financial situation and he has been seeking advice for making sound money decisions. I wrote this piece as my input into his situation. If you'd like more background before you proceed, read Abelicio Padilla's interesting blog posts...