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Sellers

Selling your Scottsdale home online

by Dru Bloomfield on August 18, 2011

If you are planning on selling your home, it’s critical that you market on-line. With 85% of home buyers searching for their home via the Internet, your home needs to have great photos, a custom web site, and lots of exposure. Have information quickly available for the buyer with a smart mobile phone is really [...]

Common Home Seller Mistakes

by Dru Bloomfield on August 17, 2011

Here are a few of actions that I think a home seller can take to speed up the sale of their home and get the best price for the market: Prepare your house for the best presentation: Clean Depersonalize De-Clutter Price it right More home seller resources: Quick Tips for Staging your Home courtesy of Calie [...]

Scottsdale home buyer says, “Sell now!”

by Dru Bloomfield on August 16, 2011

I’ve been working with a home buyer over the past month.  He’s a pretty easy going guy, looking to purchase his first home, with cash. Should be easy. Right? First, there was the challenge of finding properties. With the ever dwindling number of active listings, finding homes that matched his preferences was a lesson if [...]

I’ve been building a video library that will soon create my on-line listing presentation.  When I go to a listing a appointment, I want to focus on the seller and their house, not me selling my services.  This video shares a bit about how I work. Connection and trust are critical components of any relationship.  [...]

How much is your Scottsdale home worth?

by Dru Bloomfield on August 14, 2011

What’s a CMA? A BPO? Here’s a quick overview of how I estimate a home’s market value for Scottsdale home sellers. The same process is used for buyers, too. More info on the current Scottsdale real estate market: Scottsdale Real Estate Market Reports from AtHomeInScottsdale.com

As typical home sales in Scottsdale are on the rise, home inspections are once again becoming a more significant part of the real estate transaction.  Most all bank owned sales and short sales are sold “AS-IS”, so that the buyer is making a “Buy, Don’t Buy” decision, as a result of the home inspection. In [...]

Listing Your Home for Sale in Scottsdale

by Dru Bloomfield on June 24, 2011

One question that I commonly get when a Scottdale home owner is ready to list his or her home for sale is “How will you market my home?” The answer is straightforward. On-line. That’s where the buyers are. Current stats show that 85-90% of today’s buyers are looking online. From my personal experience, today’s buyers very much [...]