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Eight pro-tips to stage your home

One of the best strategies to maximize the value of your home once you’ve decided to list is to stage it. Staging a home involves removing most – if not all – of your furniture and replacing it with pieces that are selected to show off all the attributes of your home. You can hire…
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The uncounted costs of a remodeling project

Lots of ideas can race through your head when you decide to remodel your home. You’ll want to improve your lifestyle and make your home more pleasant to live in, but you’re also likely to expect that any work you do will add to the value of your property longer term. As a local real…
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How to cash in on curb appeal

Curb appeal is a phrase you hear and read about a lot when you begin to research the best ways to prepare your property for sale. That’s because first impressions are the most important. Prospective buyers will often take a pass if they see a shabby exterior even though the property itself may be ideal…
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Seven ways to be a smart property buyer

If you’re dreaming of owning your first home, here are some lessons from the frontline of property investment that could help you build your personal wealth for the next decade or two. Successful property investors all apply a remarkably similar methodology for buying property and following these lessons can add hundreds of thousands of dollars…
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Nine quick ways to upgrade your home

Owning a home is a work in progress – there’s always something to fix, maintain or replace. And if you don’t stay on top of it, your to-do list can grow quickly. Property is the most significant investment in most people’s lives, and so it really pays to keep it in great shape.  As an…
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Five reasons to make the move and downsize

The strength of the current property market is encouraging an increasing number of owners to sell their family home and downsize. Thanks to the current boom in prices, if the cards fall your way then you’ll do well financially from this strategy right now. But mistakes can be made when you downsize. To protect against…
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Eight tips for every first-home buyer

It’s hard to beat experience when buying real estate, especially in the current competitive environment where buyer interest continues to put upward pressure on prices. For first-time buyers, this can be challenging as your ambition to enter the property market and desire for a particular property is forced to take a back seat to the…
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Nine ways to keep your remodel project under control

Whether you’re about to sell your home, or you’ve bought a new property that needs some TLC, remodeling projects always require attention to detail. Costs can spiral out of control if you don’t scope the limit of work and create a budget that you’re determined to stay within. As your neighborhood real estate agent, I…
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The hottest new high-tech kitchen features

Remodeling your kitchen can be awesome fun if you’ve got a healthy budget. Design options and colors are head-spinning and full of potential to help you create a loving and warm home.  And if you love a touch of tech, then the latest appliances and gadgets might blow your mind. In my experience as a…
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3 mistakes to avoid when preparing your home for sale

Preparing your home for sale can be a complex mixture of decision-making and multi-tasking the various projects that need to be done in a hurry. There’s no doubt some astute improvement to your home will significantly contribute to achieving a great sales price. The key to success is not the upgrades you’ve chosen to undertake…
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