Selling a home is a four step negotiating process. Step one is deciding the asking price in consultation with your realtor. Step two is negotiating the price and terms of any offer that you receive. Step three is negotiating the recommended list of repair items from a home Continue Reading
Archives for August 2016
The Growing Popularity of Ranch Homes
MLS recently reported that sixty-five ranch homes in Anchorage have sold since the first of the year and twenty are now pending. There are forty-five active ranch listings with an average asking price of $363,112. Their average price per square foot is $236 and their time on Continue Reading
Go Fish and Find Some Good Single Family Buys
Selling real estate is like fishing. You dip the home in a sea of social media, print and online marketing and wait for a buyer. Some fishermen are more aggressive than others and try fancy flies, travel farther upstream or out in the ocean but it’s hard to beat the odds Continue Reading
Brand New Multi-Family Investment Opportunities
Bill Popp probably said it best in his three year economic forecast for the Anchorage economy. He said our current situation is a ‘pinch’ not a punch like we experienced in the late 1980’s. I agree with him. Last year was the best real estate year for sales and higher prices Continue Reading
How Much Does Pretty Matter?
Buyers zip through online websites looking for the home of their dreams. They discard homes based on the exterior photo and move on to a dozen or sometimes a hundred different properties. At open houses, probably fifty percent of those who thought they were interested in the Continue Reading
When Is a Contract Not a Contract?
The forms committee of the statewide Multiple Listing Service has done an outstanding job in creating purchase and sale agreements which are used for the vast majority of residential real estate transactions in the state of Alaska. The contract is virtually a fill in the Continue Reading
Connie Yoshimura, Owner/Broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alaska Realty, has over 30 years of residential real estate experience. She was the number one individual realtor, according to Multiple Listing Service, in 2015,2016, 2017.