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
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
How ‘Fire Wise’ Are We Really?
First, let me commend the hundreds of firefighters and support teams from all over the state and lower forty-eight who are working to contain the McHugh Creek Fire. With foresight, several years ago, the Anchorage Fire Department implemented a Fire Wise program, educating Continue Reading
Sometimes It’s the Little Things that Make a Company Great
Dwell Realty is not the largest real estate brokerage in Alaska; nor are our offices the fanciest but Dwell realtors are the best in the industry with the highest average sales prices of any of the top ten Alaska brokerages and with thirty realtors, ranks #5 in the market Continue Reading
Summer Real Estate Sales Activity
I hope everyone had a pleasant 4th of July weekend which is always a nice mid-summer break before real estate sales pick up for the next four months. Whether or not we have the usual bump in real estate sales activity will be a good indicator of our local economy. In real Continue Reading
Looking for a New Home in Today’s Market
According to the MLS, residential active listing inventory in the Municipality of Anchorage bumped up to over 900 units for sale in April and May, similar to the available inventory in 2010, turning the Anchorage market into more of a buyer’s market than a seller’s. Just a Continue Reading
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