Published 28 May 2019 There’s hardly a person with even a passing interest in real estate who isn’t aware of the three most important rules of buying and selling: location, location, location. But is the location of a property really that important? Almost without exception, the answer is “yes.” Although a large number of home
Read MorePublished 6 May 2019 Around this time last year, I noted in this column that roughly 23 percent of the single-family, free-standing homes that changed hands sold for the asking price, or more. At the time, buyers who paid more than the asking price shelled out an average of around $2,800 above list to beat
Read MorePublished 24 march 2019 According to a March 17 report from the Las Cruces Association of Realtors, local brokers sold more homes during the first two months of this year than they did during the same period in 2018. LCAR recently reported that 2018 was our area’s third-best sales-production year on record. A total of
Read MorePublished 24 February 2019 The Las Cruces Association of Realtors reported on Feb. 17 that local Realtors sold 130 new and existing homes, townhomes and condominiums in January. That number was just two sales shy of the 132 homes that were sold in January 2018, which was the third-best sales production year in our area’s
Read MorePublished 13 January 2019 According to a Jan. 7 report from the Las Cruces Association of Realtors, 2018 was the third-best production year on record for Las Cruces-area home sales. Local Realtors sold a total of 2,105 new and existing homes, townhomes and condominiums in 2018; falling just shy of the 2,136 homes sold in
Read MorePublished 9 December 2018 Today’s home-sale checklist: Clean the yard, spruce up the interior, plant flowers, rearrange the furniture and bury a statue of St. Joseph in the front yard. Bury a statue of St. Joseph? What’s up with that? I’m paraphrasing, but “what’s up with that” was pretty much the response I received from
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