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Last weekend (September 14, 2024), more than 2,300 homeowners offered their homes for sale by auction…

Every week inexperienced real estate consumers – home buyers, sellers, investors, tenants – make dreadful mistakes. Most mistakes are caused by two factors – the advice from agents (which is in the best interests of agents) and by the consumers’ naivety…

t’s one of the most infuriating aspects of today’s real estate world…

On Christmas Eve, I was walking with my 17-year-old son Alec. Next year, 2019, he was graduating from High School…

Real estate consumers: If only you knew what goes on behind-the-scenes in real estate…

Under the Crimes (Currency) act 1961, it’s a criminal offence to deliberately destroy money.
Even if it’s just a pendant, the law forbids you from drilling a tiny hole in a coin. ..

Agents know it – VPA is one of the worst scams foisted upon home sellers.
If you’re a real estate agent with any sense of decency – not to mention respect for your clients – you will reject (or abandon) the nefarious practice of VPA…

A critical factor when selling your home is ‘policy’.
The way you choose the policy will directly affect your selling price. Plus, other prices, such as commission, marketing, staging, copywriting – and the whole gamut of mostly large and needless costs which sting most home sellers…

One of the biggest reasons that homeowners have trouble with real estate agents is that owners do not understand the real estate language. They can’t speak real estate…

When he was 90, the famous writer, W Somerset Maugham, was living in his glorious home at Cap Ferrat in the South of France…