Check out 435 Magazine Real Estate issue

Are you considering selling your home?

Starting a new life chapter is invigorating...and occasionally stressful. Don't go into the process blindly. Instead make sure to ask the right questions that make listing your home an exciting time. Ask yourself these five questions:

1. What is the typical time frame for selling?
2. What is the best marketing strategy for selling?
3. How will the listing price be decided?
4. What is the best way to stay in communication?
5. How do I prepare to sell and stage my home for optimal pricing?

Does it seem a bit daunting? Are you unsure of the responses to these questions and have other concerns about selling? The prospect of selling your home doesn't have to be i...

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Have you listed your home? Has it been on the market for more than 60-days without an offer?

There are several immutable laws of home selling you can't ignore. Foremost is real estate agents don't determine how much your home is worth. The market ALWAYS determines what your home is worth. And simply, it is worth what it will fetch. In other words, your home will sell for what someone is willing to pay.

It's truly a wake-up call for many home sellers when they learn they don't determine what their home is worth. Today's buyers are savvy and have enough research in hand to know home values in your community. If you've overpriced your home it will stay on the market longer.

Some sellers believe if...

Have you thought about moving from your suburban home to the city, but decided it’s just not your time yet?

Then consider buying investment property and leasing it in the interim until you’re ready to either move into it yourself, continue the monthly cash flow or sell. The housing market crash is a distant memory and home prices are looking healthy again. There are good opportunities for investing in the urban residential real estate market worth your consideration.

Hundreds of apartments are under construction in downtown Kansas City (MO) attracting thousands more residents to the Rivermarket, Crossroads, Power and Light District, Quality Hill and other neighborhoods; howeve...