Study turns the tables on dining room preferences
The dining room is dead. No, the dining room lives. I'll bet homebuilders wish American consumers — or at least consumer preference polls — would make up their minds. For...
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Apartment rents steadily rising throughout country
If you're a renter, you're almost surely digging deeper into your wallet to satisfy your landlord these days. In the Chicago metro area, for example, apartment dwellers in September paid...
Safety tips every real estate agent should know
It's happened again: In mid-October, a Laguna Niguel, Calif., real estate agent who was locking up a house for sale was punched in the face, placed in a chokehold and...
Tech trends that are shaping real estate market
We wish we had a dollar for every website, app or other electronic wonder that promised to "revolutionize the way real estate is sold." We're still waiting for the revolution...
The challenges of selling a haunted house
Got ghosts? Gotta sell? Cindi Hagley knows your dilemma. The San Francisco-area real estate agent has made a specialty of selling houses that are thought to be inhabited by spirits...
How to deal with toxic real estate clients
Sandi Klein maintains that sometimes a real estate agent has to fire a client. Or better yet, "train" them. She doesn't mean that to be as harsh as it may...
Redfin expanding agent apprentice program
Redfin is looking for a few good apprentices and hopes to find them on college campuses. The national real estate brokerage, which has a reputation for running its business a...
More apps target the busy apartment market
The tech-crazy aspect of the real estate business isn't limited to buying and selling houses — the rental marketplace is bursting at the seams with apps to make apartment hunting...
7 ingredients make a home irresistible to buyers
It's an age-old real estate scenario: Buyers walk through a home for sale, and shrug. There's nothing wrong with the house, really, they tell the agent. It's just that the...
And you thought real estate was mundane
The housing biz isn't all square footage and sales contracts. Here are some bulletins from the wide-ranging world of real estate: I am not making this up. As if the...