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Custom Riverfront Cottage in North Bend
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5 Ways to Build Trust in the Digital Age
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A consumer’s decision on whether to work with you is ultimately based on trust. Here’s how you can get the inside track on gaining their confidence — and their business.
Respondents were presented with a list of advertising media and asked to rate their level of trust as either “Trust Completely/Somewhat” or “Don’t Trust Much/At All.” Let’s take a look at the top five most trustworthy forms of advertising and promotion:
- Recommendations from people I know (92 percent of respondents said they trust these endorsements).
- Consumer opinions posted online (70 percent)
- Editorial content such as newspaper articles (58 percent)
- Branded Web sites (50 percent)
- E-mails I signed up for (47 percent)
Now, let’s analyze…
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Home Prices Have Largest Gain in Seven Years!
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As the housing market continues to come back around, more and more statistics are surfacing that give us hope for the future. According to Inman News, things are definitely looking up. CoreLogic’s home price index is dishing out some encouraging news – home prices are up significantly! This is especially true in Western Washington, San Diego and the Phoenix housing markets.
According to CoreLogic, home prices were up 0.7 percent in January from December. While that may not seem like a huge month-to-month increase, consider this: January’s year-over-year home prices made the biggest jump in seven years – national home prices were up in January by 9.7 percent from a year ago. This is the biggest increase since 2006.
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Chula Vista- Beautifully Maintained Executive Home in Sought after Otay Ranch
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Top 10 Worst Home-Showing Offenses
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Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, March 12, 2013Here are the 10 most common responses from buyer’s agents when asked about the worst mistakes they see when presenting for-sale homes to clients:
1. Leftover home owners
By far, one of the top offenses cited by buyer’s agents was home owners still lingering around when agents arrived with clients to preview the home. Awkward encounters ranged from buyers finding sellers taking a shower, asleep in the bed, to even the “stalker sellers” who liked to follow buyers and the agent all over the home to see what they thought.
With the exception of the “stalker seller,” many of the home owners who were still at home blamed their listing agent for not giving them enough…
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Mortgage Rates Remain Near 65-Year Record Lows
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Daily Real Estate News |Fixed-rate mortgages mostly held at the same low averages this week, providing more support for the housing recovery, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey.
“Low mortgage rates are helping to revive the housing market,” says Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Mortgage rates have been staying near their 65-year record lows for the last several weeks.
Freddie Mac reports the following national averages for the week ending March 7:
- 30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 3.52 percent, with an average 0.7 point, rising slightly from last week’s 3.51 percent average. A year ago at this time, 30-year rates averaged 3.88 percent.
- 15-year fixed-rate…
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Top 5 Reasons Daylight Saving Time Is Pointless (Sunday Real Estate Funny!)
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Top 5 Reasons Daylight Savings Time is Pointless:
- You have to remember to change the darn clocks. All of them.
- Screws with your brain and internal rhythm. All of a sudden we've "lost" an hour, and now we have to go to bed earlier! Just when I'm starting to get used to it, it's time to change the clocks again.
- "Springing ahead" increases fatal car accidents for a few days. This has a lot to do with sleep deprivation.
- Actually wastes more energy, at least in warmer states that use air conditioning during the summer.
- It's bad for cows and dairy farmers. The cows don't care what the silly clock says; they still need a consistent milking schedule.
Ugh. You're up an hour early, your body hates you for it, and…
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Assessed Home Values Are Not The Same As Fair Market Value
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One of the biggest myths in Real Estate is a homes assessed value having a correlation to its present market value.
Unfortunately it is easy to see why the general public is often times confused about this because a number of Real Estate agents fail to educate their clients that there is a big difference. Trust me looking at assessed values is no better than using Zillow.com to figure out what a home is worth!
When the assessed value from the town is higher than what a property is on the market for you will often see Agents writing advertising that says something like the following “Come see this bargain home that is priced $75,000 less than the assessed value”. What this immediately tells me is the Agent either does…
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Using the Power of Price Points When Selling Your Home
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Imagine yourself as a homebuyer. You are excited and motivated to begin looking at homes in your local market, so like most home buyers you hop online or head down to a local real estate office to begin your search. In either case you will probably do something very predictable. You, as a typical homebuyer, will pick two price points as in - We would like to look for homes between $200,000 and $225,000 dollars. Interestingly, even if you have been told by your lender that you are qualified to purchase a home up to $229,400 dollars, inevitably you will just round down to $225,000 or round up to $230,000. Because of this savvy sellers often use price points as a way to gain maximum exposure for their home. How? By slightly…
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6 Important Reasons You Should Google Your Home Address
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It seems almost negligent these days to go meet with a prospective employer, set your kid up on a sleep-over or even add an old friend on Facebook without first running the company's name, your kid's pal's parents or your old college chum through Google -- just to see. But it's nowhere near as common (yet) to Google or otherwise do an internet search for your home's address.
There are at least six compelling reasons it makes sense to do so, though -- especially if it's an address you're thinking of renting, buying or selling. Smart homeowners would do well to search for their addresses, too, and here's why:
#1. To See If Megan's Law Registrants Live Nearby
Safety first, folks. Megan's law requires law-enforcement authorities…
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