August 31, 2016
Six Key Factors That Affect the Sales Price of Your Home
Posted in Selling by Tara Sharp
Pricing a home for sale is not nearly as simple as most people think. You can’t base the price on what the house down the street sold for. You can’t depend on tax assessments. Even automatic valuation methods (AVMs), while useful for a rough estimate of value, are unreliable for purposes of pricing a home for sale.
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August 29, 2016
Relocating Your Home to Advance Your Career
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Tara Sharp
Many of us dream of getting a better job. But when a promotion or new job opportunity comes with a request to relocate, the result can be very disruptive to your home life. There’s a lot to consider when making this kind of move...
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August 22, 2016
How the American Home has Evolved
Posted in Living by Shelley Rossi
Owning a home has been an American tradition from the start. But the home itself has changed dramatically over the years. For example, you may be surprised to learn how much the size of the average American home has increased since the turn of the 20th century—especially when you compare it to the size of the average family during the same time period.
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August 19, 2016
Why So Many Americans Are Either Upsizing or Downsizing
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Shelley Rossi
According to two recent surveys that took industry watchers by surprise, many family homeowners are putting frugality aside and upsizing to new houses that average as large as 2,480 square feet (an increase of as much as 13 percent from the year before), and sometimes exceed 3,500 square feet in size.
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August 15, 2016
#YourStoryIsOurStory: The Little Blue House
Posted in #YourStoryIsOurStory by Shelley Rossi
It’s tough being a first time home buyer, especially in a fiercely competitive market like Seattle where multiple offers are the norm. Windermere clients Haley and Yash experienced this first hand when they started shopping for a home. With the help of their agent Elsa Nunes-Ueno, they found and fell in love with “the little blue house”.
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August 10, 2016
Helping Children and Families Gear-up for Back to School
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Christine Wood
Getting your children prepared to go back to school is stressful enough. We all want to make sure that they are adequately prepared for the upcoming year. Now imagine that you also have to worry about how you’re going to pay for new clothing, shoes and school supplies—it can be quite overwhelming! Many parents just aren’t able to afford all of the back-to-school necessities.
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August 08, 2016
6 Smart Home Gadgets Perfect for Summer Fun
Posted in Living by Kelly Schwarze
Tell your friends and families to clear their weekend schedules throughout the entire summer—your house is the place to be for fun all season long. If you sloughed through winter with visions of making your house the hangout spot of the summer, you’ll want to bookmark this page. We’re outlining the gadgets you’ll need on hand to turn your home into a modern entertaining destination!
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August 05, 2016
25 Ways to Make the Most of Small Spaces
Posted in Living by Shelley Rossi
Suburban homes—with their large spaces, big yards, and separate bedrooms for every child—will always be popular with families, especially families of four or more. But there’s also a contingent today that’s eager to live in a dense urban setting: a high-rise condominium in the downtown core, a small home in an urban neighborhood, a small apartment, or even a shared housing arrangement.
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August 03, 2016
Nevada Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Market News and Nevada Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Job recovery in the Las Vegas metropolitan area took a bit of a pause during second quarter. May employment was down by 200 jobs from the prior month, but still 21,300 higher than seen a year ago. This matches the annual pace of 21,300 jobs seen at the end of last year, but is below the average annual rate of 32,700 for the whole of 2015.
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August 02, 2016
Southern California Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Market News and Southern California Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Over the past 12 months, the Southern California markets covered by this report added 122,800 new jobs, and the total number of people claiming unemployment insurance dropped by almost 204,000. With these changes, the unemployment rate has dropped by two percentage points from 6.3% to 4.3%.
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