Category: Edge for Investors
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Should You Let The Listing Agent Write Your Offer?
Dual Agency Generally Sucks For Buyers Some buyers think itās a good idea to use the listing agent to write their offer. They might think theyāll get a better deal or they simply donāt understand the concept and availability of an independent buyer representative. Picture this. You don’t yet have…
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4 Hacks For High Interest Rates
Are you ready to fire your landlord? Or upsize? Or downsize? Or relocate? Are high interest rates holding you back? I’ve got four hacks to help. Except I’m an overachiever and added five bonus hacks. Your opportunities await! Before we launch in, let’s just take a minute to talk about…
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Planning Your Buyer Closing Costs
Escrow! We’re cheering for you to get in. This what to expect on the other side. Below are the standard costs associated with buying a property in Silicon Beach. Some of these fees are split between the buyer and seller, as spelled out in the sales contract. The cost split…
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5 Easy Steps To Buy Real Estate In The Beach Cities
A successful real estate buying strategy is simple when pared down to its core components. It hinges on picking the right team, understand-ing your non-negotiables in a property, making a smart offer, high level negotiation skills and successfully navigating escrow. Let’s take a look at each core component. 1. Picking…
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Housing Price Free Fall?
The monthly MLS data dropped a couple days ago and I noticed an interesting phenomenon when looking at the numbers for Westchester single family home prices. Below is the chart showing median price month over month. Looking at that chart, you might think Westchester prices were in a free fall.…
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Take Advantage of Today’s Market
Are you ready for a blast of optimism in a bleak landscape of dire real estate news? If you listen to the national mainstream news and a lot of real estate agents right now, you might think the sky is falling and real estate is crashing. We are bombarded with…
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Tell Me Again Why You’re Not Buying
Tell me again why you’re not buying real estate right now. High rates, you say? Well heck yes rates are crazy high and nobody saw this coming not that many months ago, but should you put your homebuying plans on hold? No. In fact, I argue that right now is…
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3 Data-Driven Reasons To Buy Real Estate Now
Right now is the best time to buy! Sounds exactly like something a real estate broker would say to you as rates are inching toward 8%, right? š Well, I’m putting my data where my mouth is. 1| It’s Seasonal As we head into the holidays, home sales slow and…
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Buyers’ Markets vs. Sellers’ Markets
I talk ALL the time about buyers markets vs. sellers markets in our Trendline blog posts. Why does it matter? In a sellers’ market, there aren’t enough listings available and buyers are fighting for them. Sellers call all the shots. In a buyers’ market, there are tons of choices and…
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The Trendline ā Venice ā August 2022
The MLS just dropped its July listings data earlier this week and Iām seeing a continuation of interesting trends in Venice. Trendline says ā market is continuing its shift in favor of sellers after a very long run for buyers in Venice.Ā New listings have fallen off a cliff in…
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