Home Selling

Alan Barker on September 9th, 2010

It appears as if the Logan Real Estate market is still declining. Since the expiration of the home buying tax credit, home sales have been substantially down compared with previous years, and the number of homes for sale has increased. There are currently more than 900 MLS listings, and we might see only 900 total [...]

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Alan Barker on August 26th, 2010

Not only are there way too many big homes on the market, but there is now far less desire for people to ever own a Logan Luxury Home. A recent survey conducted by Trulia recently shows that American’s attitudes towards home ownership, and the size of homes they desire to own has drastically changed over [...]

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Alan Barker on August 5th, 2010

It doesn’t make any logical sense, but there are people out there who like to pretend they have large sums of money, and are purchasing high end homes, when really they have no business buying real estate at all. Occasionally there are people who make offers on million dollar houses that they have never even [...]

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Alan Barker on July 14th, 2010

There are all kinds of articles out there giving advise of how to sell your home. But what if you want to list your home just for fun, but don’t want it to sell then what?  If you want to make sure that your home doesn’t sell, here are some valuable tips for you. Make [...]

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Alan Barker on June 15th, 2010

ZipRealty recently did a survey to find out what home features home buyers most want. As a home seller, especially in a buyers market, these are good to know. If your home has these features, you want to do what you can to highlight these features. If most people are looking for certain features, and [...]

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Alan Barker on June 14th, 2010

Right now there are 854 residential homes for sale in Cache County Utah. By my records, this is the highest amount of Real Estate Inventory Cache County has ever had. The previous high I ever noted was 850 in July of last year. So what does this mean? In basic economics, it simply means that [...]

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I have blogged several times before about the huge surplus of real estate inventory for high end homes in Cache Valley. The potential of these homes selling any time soon is just plain not good. Sellers of these properties need to be realistic, and if they have to move and leave them vacant, they really [...]

Continue reading about Do You have a vacant, high end home? Consider Home Tending

This morning as I was going through the new listings in Cache Valley, I noticed that two of the new homes for sale in Wellsville, were Ultra High end homes.  I know that sales of existing large expensive homes is few and far between, but I didn’t realize just how bad it was until I [...]

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The fact is, it is tough to sell real estate by owner. Only a small percentage of sellers who list their homes by owner are able to sell by themselves. For sale by owner homes are not part of “the network” and don’t get nearly the exposure homes listed with real estate agents get. From [...]

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Alan Barker on March 31st, 2010

When making an offer on a home for sale it doesn’t matter how much less than list price the average home has sold for. What does matter is how much the property is worth to you in comparison with the other homes you could buy.

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