The holidays are a wonderful time of year but you face an interesting dilemma if your home is on the market during the holiday season. How do you balance wanting your home to look its best for potential buyers while also enjoying the holiday season with your family? Thankfully with a little bit of extra effort, you can make your home feel festive while still highl...
Selling a home with pets can be challenging. Buyers want to envision themselves living in the home, not your family or pets. To appeal to the widest range of buyers, you’ll need to reduce the signs you have a furry family member. Here are our top tips for selling your home when you have pets. Deep clean and deodorize the house A good deep clean is an impo...
Most home sellers dream of a smooth and stress-free sale but the reality is that selling a home includes a lot of moving parts. There’s much more to it than just sticking a ‘For Sale’ sign in the front yard and waiting for the offers to roll in! Your home is your most valuable asset so it’s important to thoughtfully prepare a strategy so you can attract th...
Home staging is the process of arranging furniture to make a house more appealing to potential homebuyers. Staging has become the go-to strategy to increase a home’s selling price while decreasing the time it sits on the market. Staging a home creates a welcoming space while helping buyers picture themselves living there. Here are some of our top home staging t...
Whether you’re moving to a larger home or relocating for work, selling a home takes a lot of work. From the moment you decide its time to sell your home, there are a lot of tasks to take care of: finding a real estate agent, cleaning, prepping, and staging, and finally packing and moving. It’s easy to get overwhelmed, especially if you’re buying a new home at ...
If you plan on putting your home on the market this spring selling season, now is the time to get your home into prime viewing condition. Today’s homebuyers have high expectations for what they want in their next homes so it’s important to showcase the best features of your home. Aside from decluttering and depersonalizing your home, there’s a few more tasks ...
Homebuying and selling both offer their own unique challenges and stressors so when you combine the prospect of navigating both at the same time, it’s good to accept that this period will be busy and stressful though hopefully, not drawn out! There are a lot of conditions you should consider before starting out. Here are some tips on how to successfully navigate t...
It seems like everyone is trying to buy in Sunnyvale. At least that's our impression watching all the brisk sales activity at Las Palmas, the new home community in Sunnyvale (and its not just an impression. The number of homes sold in Santa Clara County jumped 27.4% in April and the average number of days on the market dropped to just 22 days!). So we keep gettin...