How to sell your santa clara county home faster

Stage home for the top dollars

 Creating a memorable 1st impression with the home improvements pays off, according to remodeling magazine of Nove 2010 Cost vs Value REeport and mos of them does not cost an arm or leg. The top projects are as follows. 1.PROJECT 1: Entry Door Replacement (Steel) Cost $1,218 Resale value $1,243 Cost recouped 102.1% Removing the [...]

Sunnyvale Single Family Home Market

Let us look at the Sunnnyvale Real Estate market from July 2008 to January 2009. The inventory dropped from 187 to 150. A month of July 2008 was sold 62 homes and January this year sold only 28 homes. The average Sunnyvale homes dropped from $851,510 to $676,263  The mediam price dropped from $875K to [...]

Should it..Would it..

    There is a duplex in Campbell, California of the silicon Valley was on and off the market for a complete one year. The asking price started from $899,000 at Feb 2008  to currently is at the  $600,000 short sale price. Should  the seller know what happen? Would he did the same thing? Let us face [...]

Do you decorate your home to sell for fall?

  Yes! Before we know the October is here. It is time for sellers to decorate the home to reflect the fall season. 1. Place a fresh fall color plant box or flower pot near the front entrance . Clean up the deck and patio. Rake the leaves. 2. Add a fall wreath at the front door. 3. [...]

Where home sells the fast in US?

There is an article of “But even real estate in the best Zip Codes are spending longer on the market than in 2007″ from the businessweek.com. The author said that “Houses in Sunnyvale, Calif., home to companies such as Juniper Network (JNPR), AMD (AMD), and Yahoo! (YHOO), are typically on the market for 66 days, [...]

Short, short, short Short sale 2 of 2

What short sale is: When the owner cannot make the monthly payment and a short sale is when a bank or mortgage lender agrees to discount a loan balance due to an economic hardship It is pre foreclosure situation. The owner’s hardship could be divorce, job loss, sickness, bankruptcy or combination the financial problems all [...]

Short Short Short … What is a Short sale? 1 of 2

“Short sale” becomes a buzz word nowadays but what is that? According to About.com the short sale is A short sale occurs when a property is sold and the lender agrees to accept a discounted payoff, meaning the lender will release the lien that is secured to the property upon receipt of less money than [...]

De-Clutter is key of staging home to sell

Clutter-free interiors allow potential home buyers to see all of the home can offer — resulting in a shorter sales and a higher selling price. The fewer items there are in a home, the easier it is for a home shopper to visualize the space of their own.  I pick up some good declutter tips [...]

I am confused of this Silicon Valley real estate market

Saratoga Villa sold in 11 days (photo fromwww.reil.com)   Often times someone will ask me: “Should I sell, don’t sell, purchase, don’t purchase?” “When is the best time for our Real Estate Market?”  Let us look at the real estate stat from the www.reil.com                  The 2007 1st Q  inventory: 3368; Closed sales: 2244; average days: 48 days; sold [...]

What is the #1 mistake the home sellers can make? 2 of 2

There is a saying that “Fail to Prepare: Prepare to Fail”  is #1 rule for the job interviewer. It is exactly same true for home sellers. It is time to sell the homes. It is the show time!It is time for the seller , real estate agent and or home stager  works together to prepare it [...]