Real Estate Tips
Sell Your Home with Great Staging
7 Tips for Staging Your Home Make your home warm and inviting to boost your home’s value and speed up the sale process. 1. Start with a clean slate Before you can worry about where to place furniture and which wall hanging should go where, each room in your home must be spotless. [...]
Tips to Prepare your Home for Sale
Tips to Prepare Your Home for Sale Working to get your home ship-shape for showings will increase its value and shorten your sales time. 1. Have a home inspection Be proactive by arranging for a pre-sale home inspection. For $250 to $400, an inspector will warn you about troubles that could make potential buyers balk. [...]
Real Estate Articles
WV Helps Lead the Nation’s Housing Recovery
A boom in farm prices has caused many Midwest cities to emerge as leaders for some of the strongest predictions for housing appreciation in 2012. Kansas City, Kan., came in the top spot in HousingPredictor’s annual survey, forecasting an appreciation of 5.8 percent for this year. “The recovery is starting in housing with these cities and [...]
WV Slashes Taxes on Businesses
The Charleston Regional Chamber of Commerce has been on the ground floor of tax reduction, working diligently to make the state more attractive to businesses. On Jan. 1, the state’s corporate net income tax rate decreased from 8.5 percent to 7.75 percent. In 2013, it will continue its descent to 7 percent. By 2014, that [...]
Pending Home Sales Rise Again in November, Highest in a Year-and-a-Half
Washington, DC, December 29, 2011 Pending home sales continued to gain in November and reached the highest level in 19 months, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, increased 7.3 percent to 100.1 in November from an upwardly revised 93.3 in October and is [...]
I Want to Buy a Foreclosure Too!
So you want to buy a foreclosure in West Virginia. Or at least you THINK you want to buy one. Maybe you are thinking about “flipping” it. Perhaps you would just like to get a great deal on a home. This may sound great, but in reality, things are much different than what most people [...]
