Category: The Allure of the Fruit Bowl: Home Staging ‘Twiddles’ With a Buyer’s Mind

Looking to buy a house? Beware the allure of home staging. The marketing technique, in which a home’s interior and exterior is carefully prepped, sometimes by a paid professional — can trip-up unsuspecting or naïve house hunters, says Curtis Seltzer, a land consultant from Blue Grass, Va.

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Staging techniques like “non-casually tossed toss […]

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More Americans are eschewing the “bigger is better” rationale and are purchasing smaller homes, writes Scott Lindlaw for the Associated Press.
He notes that according to the American Institute of Architects, the size of U.S. homes is leveling off. The average is expected to level off at 2,500 square feet, he quotes Gopal Ahluwalia, staff […]

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More Americans are eschewing the “bigger is better” rationale and are purchasing smaller homes, writes Scott Lindlaw for the Associated Press.
He notes that according to the American Institute of Architects, the size of U.S. homes is leveling off. The average is expected to level off at 2,500 square feet, he quotes Gopal Ahluwalia, staff […]

How do things look for renters these days? Bad if you live in the San Francisco, New York or Seattle, where rents are skyrocketing.
It’s great if you live in Florida, home to the worst rental markets for landlords over the past 12 months.
That’s according to the latest first quarter figures from real estate […]

How do things look for renters these days? Bad if you live in the San Francisco, New York or Seattle, where rents are skyrocketing.
It’s great if you live in Florida, home to the worst rental markets for landlords over the past 12 months.
That’s according to the latest first quarter figures from real estate […]

The overall picture for the housing market is gloomy, but just how well or poorly the real estate market is performing varies widely city to city – with some areas showing gains or remaining fairly stable, according to a new report released today by Radar Logic, a New York-based real estate data and analytics company.
Twenty-one […]

The overall picture for the housing market is gloomy, but just how well or poorly the real estate market is performing varies widely city to city – with some areas showing gains or remaining fairly stable, according to a new report released today by Radar Logic, a New York-based real estate data and analytics company.
Twenty-one […]

A 2-bedroom apartment in Hudson Heights listed at $549,000 (Brown Harris Stevens)

Buoyed by foreign buyers and the deep pockets of workers in high-paying industries like investment banking and consulting, New York has largely bucked the trend of declining prices and declining sales. At least, that is, until now, according to this story in Wednesday’s Journal. […]

A home for sale in south Denver suburb of Englewood, Colo. (Credit: AP)

An article in Wednesday’s USA Today looks at one neighborhood on the outskirts of Denver that’s in foreclosure meltdown. “On some blocks, as many as one-third of residents have lost their homes, making this one of the worst hot spots in a city […]

The Federal Reserve is posting maps to illustrate subprime loan conditions across the U.S.
The Fed on Tuesday announced the maps will be maintained by its district bank in New York. Monthly updates are planned. The maps will display regional variation in the condition of securitized, owner-occupied subprime and alt-A mortgage loans.
The maps will show information […]