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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 ...
Buying Your First Home? Plan for These Hidden Costs
Great news! You just found the perfect home in the ideal neighborhood. However, if you’re a first-time home buyer, you need to prepare for additional—and often unexpected—home-buying costs. Here, Zill...
The Ins and Outs of Home Buyer & Seller Contingencies
If you’re thinking about buying a home, then you’ve likely heard of contingencies—the clauses in a real estate contract that stipulate conditions for the buyer and seller to agree upon for a sale to b...
Ready to Stop Renting and Start Owning a Home?
If you’ve been renting for a while and now think you’re ready to take the big step and move into a home you can call your own, you’ll want to make sure you’re prepared. Bottom line: Owning a home is a...
What’s the Best Day to Put Your Home on the Market?
When it comes to listing a home, sellers don’t want to leave anything to chance, including what day they put their home on the market. Toward that end, Redfin analyzed a sample of 100,000 homes that s...
Hollywood Riviera Sportsman’s Club a Local Tradition
Calling all male residents of the Riviera looking for a chance to give back to the community and have a great time doing it: join the Hollywood Riviera Sportsman’s Club. Established in 1949 by a...
Old House Versus New House: Which Is Better to Buy?
If you’re shopping for a place to live, this may be one of your primary decisions. Is it better to buy brand-new? Or do homes, like wine, get better with time? It turns out there is no one-size-fits-a...
14 Factors That Can Stall the Mortgage Closing Process
You’ve found your dream home and your purchase offer has been accepted. Now you have to get through one more step before you move in: mortgage closing. The time it takes to close on a home will vary f...
13 Smart Ways to Sell Your Home as Fast as Possible
Thinking about selling your home? Here, Reader’s Digest offers 13 smart ways to sell your home faster! 1. Sell at the right time If you have been debating whether or not to sell your home, spring it t...
How to Make Your Home Appear Warmer—and Less Sterile—to Potential Homebuyers
Arranging furnishings and decor in a house so buyers can envision living there can be an important tool for home sellers. In fact, studies show that staged homes sell 88 percent faster and for 20 perc...
Focus on Fascinating Riviera Retailer: Soil
The space may be small, but the unique gift ideas are overflowing at Soil, a centrally located kiosk in the heart of the Riviera Village. Once an information booth, the kiosk sat empty for many years ...
How to Get a Higher Price During a Sellers’ Market
Do certain amenities attract buyers to pay a premium for a home? According to Zillow—which analyzed 3.6 million home sales between 2016 and 2017 to see how listing keywords associated with different f...
Which Offer Should You Choose When Selling Your House?
If you’re selling your home, you might receive multiple offers from prospective buyers. So, the smart move is to pick the highest one, right? Not always. Price is one of many considerations when decid...
How to Navigate the House-Hunting Process from Long Distance
Searching for a house locally is not without its difficulties. Add hundreds or even thousands of miles to the equation, and it becomes infinitely more complicated. Although long-distance house hunting...