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Men versus women: Who buys more homes?

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By: Jenny Zhang, Home Loan Expert at Quizzle.com

With the first-time home buyer tax credit extension, buyers are rushing back into the housing market. Single-family homes are being bought up all over the country, but who’s buying them?

Contrary to popular belief, families and couples are not the only people buying homes. In fact, many singles are buying up homes now just because it’s the best time to invest in a home. So the question becomes, who’s buying more: Men or women?

Home Buying: Things to Know before You Buy

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By: Angela Burkhart, Quizzle.com

If you’re in the market for a new home, now is the perfect time to buy. Not only did the

Top 10 Home Staging Tips for Selling Your Home Fast

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By: Puja McKernan, Real Estate Expert at Quizzle.com With our economy struggling to recover and a surplus of homes on the market, home sellers are facing more and more…

Real Estate Tips

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When you are in the real estate business, you know you have to work hard to get new business, new clients, et cetera. During times like this, with an economical and housing crunch going on, this becomes more…

$8000 Tax Credit For First Time Buyers

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President Obama signed the federal tax credit into law. It is expected to contribute approximately $22 billion to the economy, Congress overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan measure this week extending the $8,000 home buyer tax credit to April 30, 2010, with a 60-day extension…

An Interesting Foreclosure Story with a Happy Ending

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This home was another fairly smooth transaction with a very sweet couple buying their first home. Although, there are a couple of interesting things about this transaction. This home was a foreclosure. The buyers competed for this home in a…

New Home Built from Ground Up in Palo Alto

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This was a fun sale. The buyers went into contract in June and just closed the transaction last week. They actually watched this home being built from start to finish and were very involved in getting to choose everything to suit their own taste. They even got to choose where some outlets went…

It Still Pays to be a Professional

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Yay! A smooth transaction!!! A home I just sold in San Jose for $575,000 was a VERY smooth transaction. There were 5 offers and amazingly, we were NOT even the highest offer, but they went with us. The seller and agent told us that they liked our ‘package’ and felt most…

I Do Not Know Who Was Worse, the Seller or the Lender

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Where do I start? This sale was interesting from Day 1. This home had been on the market for some time and it was over priced. My clients viewed the home, but at the time, were not interested due to the high price. After some time, the seller did a price reduction and it renewed the buyer’s…

We Painted the Patio to Get the FHA Funded

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These buyers are an adorable young couple who I just adore. This transaction was smooth in the beginning, but just crazy towards the end due to the endless paperwork that Wells Fargo required from them just picking their accounts to death. Wells Fargo required them to explain every…