In most markets, home buyers have the upper hand these days. That often means they have greater negotiating power when it comes to price or the ability to squeeze out extra perks from sellers.
But on occasion, they will ask a seller for even more, a request that will help get to know the home better. [...]
FEDERAL Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the thumbs down to tax breaks on loans for first home-buyers.
Aussie Home Loans boss John Symond has said the measure would help ease the housing affordability crisis.
But Ms Plibersek said it wasn’t the fairest way of helping first home buyers.
What needed to be done was to make sure [...]
Authorities say five people who are apparently related have been found dead inside a Southern California home.
Sheriff’s Lt. Erin Giudice (JOO-duh-say) says the bodies were discovered just before 4 p.m. Sunday at the residence in a gated community in San Clemente. She says a relative made the discovery and called 911.
Giudice says it appears all [...]
Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida on Sunday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.
A fire in Volusia County has burned between 500 and 600 acres and caused road closures and home evacuations, state Division of Forestry spokesman Timber Weller said.
Weller said windy, dry conditions were challenging the [...]
Greater Sacramento’s home values have declined 30 percent since the peak of the housing market in fourth-quarter 2005, according to a real estate Web site.
And almost 70 percent of families in the four-county region who bought their homes in 2006 have negative equity, one of the highest rates in the nation but far from the [...]
The family of an elderly dementia patient who was raped by a carer in her nursing home say they are appalled that her attacker has been sentenced to serve only six months in jail.
Thirty-six-year-old Henry Alexander was found guilty of raping the 85-year-old woman while he was washing her at her Mount Eliza nursing home [...]
Whether or not you have a home security system, there are some common mistakes that you should watch out for because they can make your house an easy mark for thieves. Browse through the following no-nos and make sure you are not guilty of committing any of them. (If you are, for your [...]
Safe rooms, sometimes referred to as panic rooms, are hideaways in your house
where you can quickly escape to if an intruder forces his way into the house. In
storm-ridden areas, safe rooms can also refer to rooms built with protection
from high winds in mind. For the purpose of this article, we will discuss safe
rooms from a [...]
Home sellers not only need to think like a realtor in finding potential buyers for their homes, they also need to think like a personal security agent.
Sellers need to keep their safety in mind when prospecting potential buyers. The real estate industry has seen a problematic climb in assaults towards realtors, and so is [...]
How safe is your home? Here is a short home security checklist that hits on the major things you should take a look at in order to make your home less of a target to
thieves. Remember, burglars prefer to choose the easy mark, so you want to do everything possible to make your [...]