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Get Your Outdoor Living Area Ready For Summer

As with the inside of your home, outdoor living areas need attention and care to keep them looking their best. While you may not need to dust or vacuum your deck and furniture, there are a few maintenance chores that will get the warm-weather living off to a good start.

Are we losing sight of the latte vision in 2024?

Its April 2024. In the years Ive been fortunate enough to write this byline, Ive claimed that vast improvements in the consumer experience of buying a home were right around the corner ...

Luxury listing: restored brownstone in Park Slope

This classic brownstone in Brooklyn's historic Park Slope neighborhood comes with a new staircase and restored banister that lead to a parlor floor, where you can take in stretching views of Polhemus Place ...

Marguerite Giguere on why real estate is a great career industry

Marguerite Giguere, agent with Windermere Properties, discusses why she loves the real estate industry ...

National rent rising at a breakneck pace

According to Apartment List's April 2024 National Apartment List Rent Report, median rents across the country have taken a sharp rise, after brief decline at the beginning of the year. In March, average rent costs rose 0.4 percent and have increased 2.7 percent year-over-year ...

An experiment reveals how commission-cutting benefits no one

There is one topic that every listing agent, broker and real estate coach talks and thinks about all the time: How much commission is the right commission? When is the right time to commission-cut ...

Spring homebuying and selling: An emojis worth 1,000 words

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate released an emoji-only list of top 5 tips for buyers and sellers during the robust spring homebuying season. The company says agents can use the list to connect with their millennial clients, who frequently use emojis to communicate ...

Top comments of the week March 28-April 1

What's in a good comment? Delving into the new-age art form that is "hashing it out" online, sometimes feedback on an article turns out to be a small essay of its own -- or at least worthy of one. In many ways, the power of persuasion has less to do with the "what" of a conversation point than the "why." Some of our stand-out comments this week discussed the Walmart of real estate, removing all personal elements in preparing a house for sale, flipping buyer's agent bonuses on their head and what clients need when the market gets tough ...

Could real estate teams solve the agent quality problem?

A few smart people have said some things in my vicinity lately that got me thinking. Jay Luebke, a 21-year-old real estate agent whom Brad Inman interviewed on his Unlisted podcast back in February, attributed part of his success in real estate to the fact that he is on a team. "Being on a team is a must," Luebke said. "Im a complete team supporter." ...

April fool! Universal housing, URL mashups and doghouses for sale

In honor of April Fools' Day, three real estate influencers played jokes of their own. Find out how Homes.com, Realtor.com and Rob Hahn had a little fun on this "holiday." ...

Luxury listing: Mediterranean estate with ample privacy

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom home sits on a large lot with ample indoor and outdoor entertaining space. The home has custom woodwork, a chef's kitchen, formal dining room, pool and gazebo. ...