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How to Find Your Dream Home
How to find your dream home is exciting, yet an all-consuming, adventure. While it’s fun to swipe through listings and attend every open house in your area, it sometimes can leave you feeling like you...
Are These Home Features a Waste of Cash?
No one likes to overpay when buying a home. So, if you want to make sure every home-buying dollar counts, check out these home features Realtor.com says often inspire sellers to boost their price. Whi...
Five Tips for Buying a House in Your 20’s
Between entry-level salaries, student loans and the desire to just be young and have fun, twentysomethings often think buying a house is beyond their reach. Not so quick! It is entirely possible to bu...
7 Tips for Selling Your Home in the Fall
Spring and Summer might be the top home-selling seasons, but Fall also is a great time to sell your home because there’s typically less competition and the market is still very active. So, if your hou...
4 Homebuying Moves You May Not Realize You Have to Make
Purchasing a house takes time, patience and careful planning. Many moving parts involved in the process, and sometimes buyers miss crucial steps—which can cost them big-time. Toward that end, Realtor....
Richardson Middle School Students Enjoy New Gymnasium
September means time to head back to school, and for students of Richardson Middle School, that also means enjoying the campus’ new physical education facilities. In April, Richardson celebrated the g...
Hollywood Riviera Marks 90th Birthday with 2 New Signs
This year marks a milestone in the history of the Hollywood Riviera – the community’s 90th birthday. Nine decades ago developer Clifford Reid created this beautiful community which reminded him so viv...
6 Easy Curb-Appeal Tricks That Will Cost You Less Than $200
Before you even think about selling your home, you have to make it sparkle—after all, prospective buyers will be peering in every corner, closet and cabinet they can get into looking for some curb app...
Getting ready to move? Here are 7 Qualities of a Good Neighbor
Getting ready to move into a new home? Know that to have good neighbors, you must first be one yourself. Here, Zillow offers seven techniques that can help win the approval of your entire neighborhood...
The Biggest 5 Mistakes Buyers Make, [According to Real Estate Agents]
Because it difficult navigating the real estate market, it’s only natural that some people are going to make mistakes. With that in mind, Forbes asked industry professionals to share their experiences...
Today’s Kitchen Trends That Millenials Want
Thirty-five percent of millennials who own a home or are likely to purchase a home in the next few years said the kitchen is the most important room when it comes to the house hunt, according to a nat...
Offer Was Rejected? This Might Be the Real Reason Why
You’ve found a house you love and made a good offer. Unfortunately, it was rejected. What gives? Although home sellers don’t have to explain why they pass up what seems like a perfectly fine offer, th...
6 Ways Buyers Can Stand Out, Beat the Competition and Buy the House
In a seller’s market, there can be many home buyers and too few houses. If you’re a buyer facing this dilemma, that means you need to figure out how to beat the competition and buy the house. Typicall...
Thinking of Selling Your House? [5 Proven Ways to Increase Home Value]
If you’re thinking of selling your house, there are factors that increase your home value that are out of your control, including its location and the popularity of that market. But you can keep up wi...
7 Vintage Kitchen Design Trends That Are Making a Comeback
Thinking of selling your home? You might want to try incorporating well-placed throwbacks from decades such as the 1930s into your kitchen’s cooking and dining spaces, as well as rethinking your culin...
5 Home-Selling Tips for the Sizzling Summer Season
Thousands are still without power in Los Angeles after a triple-digit heat wave prompted high demand for electricity this past week. Although Summer is still peak time for selling houses, potential bu...
8 Hotel Design Secrets That Can Help Sell Your Home
High-end hotels deliberately employ the use of sumptuous bedding, chic décor, and breathtaking views so their guests will never want to leave. Here, Realtor.com offers tips on how to artfully stage th...
3 Popular Summer Home Features Home Buyers Want Most
Selling your home? These 3 popular summer home features that buyers will pay extra for. Outdoor showers garner the highest listing premium, while barbecues, backyard pools, fireplaces and fire pits ad...
Should You Sell Your Home When You Retire?
There are plenty of reasons why many people today aren’t financially prepared for retirement and question whether or not to sell your home when you retire. Americans are living longer, so they have to...
Knowledge Gap Contributing to Housing Market and Affordability Concerns, Cautiousness
A newly released survey of 1,000 nationally representative U.S. college-educated adults reveals that today’s housing and financial environment is impacting home-purchasing decisions. According to the ...