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What Type of Shifting Real Estate Market Are We In?

April 12, 2023 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Real estate Market

When selling or buying real estate, timing is essential. Homeowners that are thinking about selling their homes today long for the strong Sellers’ Market of recent years past. They may feel they missed their window of opportunity, and in many cases, they are correct. Buyers think their time has come! They THINK the sellers’ market is gone, and they should now be able to buy their dream home at Continue Reading

To Stage or Not to Stage? Can You Really Afford NOT to Stage Your Home?

March 13, 2023 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Home Staging

Having well-planned strategies to stage your home can positively impact your final selling price. The cost of staging a home usually is well below that of the first price reduction if a home remains on the market for too long. If a home remains on the market for a month without an offer, the average selling price drops 5%. On a $500,000 home, that’s $25,000. “Statistics show the best chance of Continue Reading

The Benefits of Signing a Buyer’s Agreement with Your Broker

August 15, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

buyer's agreement

Buying a home is a significant investment—one of life’s biggest purchases—and it can be a complicated, lengthy process, so you want a real estate agent who will be fully committed to you. An experienced agent will dedicate a great amount of time to help you achieve your goal; likewise, they want their buyers to be fully committed to them in return. One way this mutual commitment is often Continue Reading

BUYERS: What Kind of Market Research Should My Real Estate Sales Agent Provide?

May 2, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Real estate market research

For most buyers, purchasing a home is the largest investment they will make, and they crave accurate information to make a sound decision. We believe more understandable information is better when making such an important decision. If comprehensive market research and more might help our clients, we want to provide it. When we talk about “market research” in the context of real estate, we Continue Reading

What To Do When You Inherit a Home

April 11, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Home Inheritance

Caveat: This article is not about the legal process for finalizing an inheritance. The details to cover that topic are extensive and readily available online. As a convenience, we have outlined some of the basic steps and guidelines at the end of this article. Rest assured, at some point in the inheritance process, you will need to work with an attorney who should cover all the details of what Continue Reading

Ways to Minimize Real Estate Capital Gains Taxes

March 28, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Ways to Minimize Real Estate Capital Gains Taxes

In the last 20 years, there has not been a more attractive market for selling your real estate investments than now. Whether it’s time to downsize, time to sell your vacation real estate, time to relocate for work, time to buy your retirement dream home, or time to move to another state to be near family, home sellers are seeing some of the best sales offers in decades—often for cash and often Continue Reading

The Pros and Cons of Buying a Vacation Home

March 21, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Florida vacation home

Thinking about buying a Florida vacation home? You’re not alone. Florida’s 1,350 miles of coastal beauty and seemingly endless sunshine draw millions to our shores each year. Add to that, the Tampa Bay Area is ranked sixth by Travel & Leisure Magazine out of the seven best places to buy a vacation home in Florida, and the idea of a Tampa Bay or Gulf coast vacation home becomes even more Continue Reading

Caring for Parents at Home

March 7, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

aging in place real estate

“Aging in place” is a Top Priority for Aging Adults: Here’s How to Plan for This in Real Estate We are an aging population and the projected numbers are worth noting. The number of people over age 65 in the U.S. is projected to DOUBLE over the next 40 years. Some of those people will include our parents, other family, and ourselves, and it’s inevitable they will need some level of Continue Reading

Should I Buy or Should I Build? Pros & Cons

February 7, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Build or Buy Real Estate

You want a new home…or at least one that's new to you. Should you buy or build? Both have their pluses and minuses. How do you decide which avenue to take? That depends on the time frame you have to make a move, where you want to live, and how much personal customization you want in your new (or new-to-you) home. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median price for an existing home in the Continue Reading

How Labor and Supply Chain Shortages Will Affect Real Estate in 2022

January 24, 2022 by Personal Realty Advisers Leave a Comment

Labor and Supply Chain Shortage Real Estate

If the Pandemic has taught us anything, it's that many of us can be just as productive and effective working from home. This has opened the door for many to live anywhere we want and work remotely. Therefore, many are relocating to seek warmer weather, more cost-effective markets, and more square footage. Often with a new home comes new projects. Couple that with the fact that those of us who Continue Reading

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