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Best Time Of The Year To Buy Things For Your Home
Buying stuff can be stressful. Knowing the best time of the year to buy appliances and other household items can lessen the anxiety. Furniture: You could save 30% to 60% buying furniture in January and July, as stores try to … Continue reading
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Tagged appliances, cabinetry, cabinets, color, decorations, dishwasher, energy effeciant, energy savings, floor, flooring, floors, furniture, gardeners, gardening, hardwood, hardwood flooring, hardwood floors, holidays, houselogic, kitchen, kitchen flooring, lawn mower care, modern, mow grass, NAR, October, oven, paint, prices, range, realtor, Sale, Sales, Snow, spring, Thanksgiving, time, tools
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12 Delightful Ways to Make Your House Brighter in Winter
Let more natural light shine indoors with these simple tips. Fall and winter start cozy — who hasn’t used the colder temperatures as an excuse to binge-watch Netflix while swaddled in a couch blanket? But come January, staying indoors can feel less … Continue reading
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Tagged air, bill, branches, bright, bushes, clean, color, curb appeal, design, Fall, fast, floor, floors, furniture, garage, green, heat, home, house, houselogic, kitchen, light, lighting, lights, look, mirrors, money, NAR, open, outside, paint, plants, room, seasonal, sharing, sunlight, utilities, white kitchen, windows, winter
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Metro Home Prices Rise 4.8% in 3rd Quarter
WASHINGTON (November 1, 2018) – Low inventory levels of moderately priced homes continue to stifle home sales and maintain the trend of increasing metro market prices according to the latest quarterly report (link is external) by the National Association of … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable homes, AGO, builders, buyers, data, economy, existing home, Fall, family, for sale, growth, home buyer, home prices, home sale, home sales, Homebuyer, homes for sale, housing, housing market, housing markets, income, increase, job growth, look, lower, maintain, metro area, Mortgage, mortgage rates, NAR, national association of realtors, new, News, open, price, realtor, Sale, Sales, seasonal, size, strong economy, WA, war, washington
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Stunning Ceilings: The Latest Eye Candy for the 5th Wall
Ceilings are too often the plain Jane element of a listing, but this element of your listing’s structure can assume a starring role and transform a space with minimal effort and expense. Learn about your clients’ options, from millwork to … Continue reading
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Tagged Active, AGO, air, apartments, architects, architecture, bath, builders, building, buyers, cabinetry, cabinets, clean, color, Construction, credit, crown molding, data, days, design, downtown, dust, family, favor, fixtures, floor, floors, furniture, home, Homebuyer, homeowners, homes, house, Houses, housing, increase, kitchen, landscape, light, lighting, lights, look, lower, maintain, market, marketing, NAR, national association of realtors, new, new homes, open, paint, palette, paper, personal, quality, range, real estate, realtor, remodel, remodeling, restore, room, Sale, Sales, seller, sellers, selling, shape, staging, time, updated, upgrades, work
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15 More States Now Can Do Fully Digital Home Closings
July 25, 2018 A new partnership between digital notary platform Notarize and Title Resources, a national title company, is ushering in faster and fully digital closings on real estate transactions in a handful of states. Consumers are able to complete … Continue reading
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Tagged buyers, closing, closings, customers, data, electronic, empower, fast, home, human error, investment, Lender, lenders, NAR, national association of realtors, new, notarizations, notarize, notary, offer, open, paper, real estate, real estate transactions, realtor, regulations, Sale, Sales, states, technology, time, underwriting, value, WA
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4 Renovation Myths Reality TV Shows Propagate
July 2, 2018 Home improvement reality television shows have long misguided consumers about the renovation process. You likely have some clients who are obsessed with channels such as HGTV, and they may have developed some common misunderstandings about the real … Continue reading
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Tagged bath, building, color, contract, contractor, data, design, family, floor, floor plan, fresh, government, home, increase, kitchen, light, money, moving, myths, NAR, national association of realtors, new, News, open, paint, real estate, realtor, remodel, remodeling, remodeling project, remodels, renovation, Sale, Sales, work
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