Category: Selling Your Home

Whether you’re buying, selling, or refinancing your home, a home appraisal is something you’ll want to understand – at least at a high level – to ensure your real estate transaction goes as smoothly as possible. Here at the Joe Dickerson Group, we’ve helped our clients through hundreds of appraisals throughout the Bay Area. Sometimes the appraisals go as planned or even better than expected; other times, the appraisals come back low, and we have to regroup. Wherever you are in the process, it’s important that you take time to learn about the home appraisal process so that you can get

Contingencies in a real estate purchase contract allows the buyer (or seller in the case of seller contingencies) to cancel the contract without breaching the contract. While contractual contingencies can be built in for pretty much anything you can think of, there’s a few common and somewhat standard contingencies for buyers… Investigation / inspection contingencies Appraisal contingencies Financing contingencies In this article, we’ll dive into each of these three most common contingencies, why you may or may not want to include them in your offer, and other considerations. Whether you’re looking to buy, sell, or invest in real estate, it’s

Buying a home is a big deal, whether it’s your first home or whether you’ve gone through the process before. And when done right, buying a home can help you build life-changing wealth for your family. When you take resale value into consideration up front, you can make wise and strategic decisions when it comes to purchasing a home, to ensure that it not only meets your lifestyle and family needs, but that it also helps you build equity and wealth in the coming years. In this article, we’ll share with you why it’s so important for buyers to think

In the competitive Bay Area real estate market, it’s not uncommon for a hot home on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) to garner upwards of a dozen viable offers from motivated buyers. But at the end of the day, is all the competition actually better than selling your home quietly off-market? And for buyers and those looking to get into real estate investing, are off-market real estate deals the hidden gems in this competitive real estate market? And if so, what are the different ways to find off-market deals, given that they’re not publicly advertised on the MLS? These are