By The Tim on August 22, 2012
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. On Monday I posted the results of a new quarterly survey of home sellers that we’re doing at Redfin. This part in particular stood out to me as I was analyzing the responses: …when asked how they approach pricing their home 32% of sellers indicated that they [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged listings, overvalued, price drops, Redfin, sellers, survey
By The Tim on May 9, 2012
Reader Serafina asked a good question on yesterday’s post: There’s been a lot of discussion on the blog about the buyer’s side — how it might be good to wait until fall, how there are bidding wars, etc. What about the sellers? We are getting ready to sell. Why? We bought in ’99; we’ve got [...]
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By The Tim on January 12, 2011
Once again, I decided to head out to some weekend open houses to get a first-hand look at some of what’s on the market. And, once again, as I pumped up everyone’s favorite “open house traffic” statistic, I often found myself wondering: What were they thinking? When I say “they” I’m referring to both the [...]
Posted in Features, Humor | Tagged photos, real-actual-home-staging, sellers, staging
By The Tim on September 13, 2010
I spent some time yesterday afternoon browsing some open houses just for kicks—a first for me. While some of the homes I looked at were set up quite nicely (this one in particular—sweet retro styling), others left me wondering: What were they thinking? By “they” I mean both the home seller and the seller’s agent, [...]
Posted in Features, Humor | Tagged photos, real-actual-home-staging, sellers, staging
By The Tim on September 3, 2010
As a coworker and I were pondering the housing market yesterday, I wondered whether it would be possible to build a computer simulation that would provide a relatively accurate model of a perfectly efficient housing market. Unfortunately we didn’t come up with a good way to do that, but he did suggest a real-world experiment [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged auction, buyer's market, pricing, sellers
By The Tim on May 24, 2010
Great question in today’s open thread: What are the top three things you would spend money on to get a house sold quickly? Here are my top three: curb appeal serious cleaning staging By “curb appeal” I mean literally anything that is visible from the curb. You want your home to make the best possible [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged advice, how-to, reader_question, sellers
