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How Home Values Have Increased Since 2019

20% Drop Their Asking Price The housing market may finally be showing signs of cooling. Last month in May of 2022, the real estate company Redfin reported that 1 out of 5 sellers dropped their asking price, this is 20% of their listings. While this isn’t a large percentage, it signifies a shift in demand.…
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How Landscaping Affects Home Values

Ask Why? Before you run out and load up on plants, trees, mulch, rocks, and lighting, it’s important to ask yourself why? We proffer such a question because depending your reason, the benefits may not be what you intended. Some real estate professionals claim that landscaping can add tens of thousands of dollars in value…
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Kitchen Features that Boost Home Values

The Heart of the Home Most real estate professionals will agree that the heart of a home is the kitchen, so in today’s post from USHomeValue.com, we discuss how to boost your home’s value by using your kitchen. List of Features that Pay for Themselves Few rooms in a home can affect its desirability than…
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How Much Value Does a Pool Add?

One of the Most Desirable Additions You will discover very few real estate professionals that will argue a swimming pool is not a desirable feature to any home. As one could imagine, a swimming pool is one of the most valuable additions to any home, especially in those climates that are conducive to having fun…
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How to Avoid a Low Appraisal

Almost 10% of Appraisals are Too Low Usually, if you find the right real estate agent, you should be in pretty good hands when selling your home. But we have seen as many as 1 out of 10 appraisals come back below the negotiated purchase price. First of all, appraisers are not magicians, even though…
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6 Ways to Find Out What a House is Worth

Not All Home Value Calculators are Accurate In today’s real estate market, everyone is anxious to find out exactly how much their current house (or the one they’re about to submit an offer on) is worth. In this article, we will show you 6 ways to find out how much a house is worth. 1.…
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What are Real Estate Comps?

Comparables You’ve probably heard the word comps numerous times in and around various real estate circles and we guess, you finally decided to look it up. So let’s explain what they are and who uses them. Real estate comps is short for real estate comparables. Comparables (comps for short) are properties that have recently sold…
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How to Do a Real Estate CMA

Normally, we specialize in selling our U.S. Home Value Reports to homeowners and real estate investors to aid them in their preliminary decision-making process regarding buying and selling residential property. But in this article, we’re going to show you how to perform your own version of a home value report called a comparative market analysis…
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