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Raymond Stoklosa

Home Selling Tips for Increasing Value

In my last post, we gave you some tips for improving curb appeal to increase home value for improving the look of the outside before selling your home. Today, we’ll take a look inside. Tips for Increasing Home Value Here are some improvements you can make to the inside of your house to increase value. [...]

Raymond Stoklosa

What Do a Black & White Ball and Selling Your Home Have In Common?

Selling your San Mateo home is part beauty contest and part price war. We’ve written numerous articles about the price and value side of the equation, let’s talk about the beauty contest side now. Selling Your Home is Like Going to a Black and White Ball Metaphorically speaking, selling your home is a little like [...]

Rebecca Williamson

What Sold in San Mateo Park and El Cerrito Park?

When you are looking to buy and/or sell a San Mateo home, it is important to know what other buyers were willing to pay for similar homes in the last 90 days. This is the only way you can determine how much a similar home is worth in today’s market. If you are considering making [...]

Rebecca Williamson

Homes Sales in Belmont’s Hallmark Neighborhood

Homes are Only Worth What a Buyer is Willing to Pay for It When you are looking to buy a home in any neighborhood, it is good to know what other buyers were willing to pay for similar homes nearby. As we’ve said may times, homes are only worth what a buyer is willing to [...]

Raymond Stoklosa

Open Houses Don’t Sell Homes

Open houses are becoming as obsolete as coin-operated pay telephones…and good riddance too.  The National Association of REALTORS (NAR) Survey of Buyers and Sellers show such an insignificant number of buyers using open houses to search for a home that they no longer include open houses as a category in the survey results. 96% of [...]