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Seller’s Market Version – How to get a great real estate deal!
I hear it on a regular basis from Western New York Buyers: “I want a Great Real Estate deal!” Makes you think of the popular TV game show “Let’s Make A Deal!” There sometimes you get a flashy sports car, and sometimes you left with his and her bicycles or worse. Much like the For [...]
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Buyers cannot resist an underpriced home!
For more information call Colleen Kulikowski (716) 650-0051 Thinking of selling your Western New York home? Interested in finding out the current market value of your single family home, condo or investment property? Then call www.BestBuffaloHomes.com at (716) 650-0051 to discuss what is happening in today’s Western New York Real Estate Market. We would [...]
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What should I check during the final walk through?
Congratulations! It is time for that final walk through of your new Western New York home. Up until now it has been a whirlwind of activity–contract negotiations, home inspection, attorney review, mortgage approval. This is your final step before signing all of the papers to make this Western New York house your home. You are [...]
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Deciding if You Should Stay in Your Current Home or Move Up
Between record low interest rates and price reductions, many homeowners are asking themselves if now is a good time to move up. Buying under today’s conditions can mean getting more home for less money. You’ll pay a smaller amount of interest over time and can snag that dream home for a fraction of its boom-era [...]
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Choices too much for today’s WNY home buyers?
Too often I see Buyers making either bad decisions or never finding something that they want to purchase. They seem to find it difficult to settle on criteria. Buyers often find it difficult to weed through the choices and never want to remove homes from the selection. This could result in so many choices that selecting the right home could become overwhelming. In the process they may see something that changes the criteria. Buyers can easily be distracted and that is why you need to work with an objective professional to guide you through the maze of confusion that finding the right home can be.
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What did we just do?
Buyers Remorse – Do you have it? What did we just do? It is a question that many 1st time home buyers and even people that are moving from one home to another ask themselves. They suddenly find themselves very worried about the future that it is going to take 30 years to pay off [...]
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It is all local when it comes to your home’s value!
Western New York home owners cannot compare their home prices to that of Long Beach CA or Chicago IL or Miami FL. Even comparing home values in Orchard Park or Depew in Erie County to Cambria or Niagara Falls in Niagara County is like comparing apples to buttons. True data can show national trends, but Real Estate is local folks! In Western New York home values can be as local as streets and blocks. The media loves to take everything to the National level, especially Real Estate and home values. If that were true everyone could purchase a home for the same amount of money.
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Low Appraisals Still Causing Problems in Some Deals
The real estate market is on the upswing – but are those improvements being reflected in home appraisals? When many potential buyers push the selling price of a home higher than the asking price – which isn’t unusual in neighborhoods where the demand is high – problems are arising because the appraisers are coming in [...]
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What Should WNY Sellers Disclose to Home Buyers?
By law, real estate professionals cannot fill out any sellers’ home disclosures unless the agent is the seller or a party to the transaction. If your agent can’t tell you, ask a lawyer if you need to sign every disclosure handed you. Every state has its own laws regarding disclosures, so the forms will be [...]
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Homeowners Use Improvements To Pump Up Style, Not Equity
Yes, most home improvements will boost or hold equity, even in the worst market, but today’s homeowners are most concerned with improvements that will enhance their homes’ function and form rather than its value. A new survey of homeowners planning to decorate, remodel or build in the next two years found that the vast majority, [...]
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Of course your home is (Fill-in-the-Blank) !
But it won’t sell for more than what a buyer is willing to pay! There are not a lot of people out there that will pay more than the appraised value of a home and if they do they will have to purchase all cash. Main reason — there isn’t an appraiser out there that [...]
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Stop worring about your home value!
Should I worry about my Buffalo home’s value? As the Buffalo New York real estate market continues to play in the state of uncertainty, some values of are decreasing; some are not. You may be concerned about the fluctuation in values. Should you worry? Here is some advice — as long as you are not [...]
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Foreclosure is a process — Not a type of Sale
A foreclosure is the process that a bank, homeowner and property go through when the homeowner is behind on the payments. Foreclosure has become the sexy word that the media has used. Bank Owned, Government Owned, Short Sale or Distressed Sale -- well those words aren't as sexy as the word Foreclosure. The media needs a sexy word to sell headlines.