Selling

Encouraged by rising home prices, more sellers are coming to market in Santa Clara County. Santa Clara County has seen its active inventory almost double in the first four

Even in a sellers' market as hot as it is today, contractual risks lurk, but there are ways sellers can contractually protect themselves. Conventional home sale contracts typically include

"You need to use a little truth serum to get prospective real estate agents to come clean." BECKI SALTZMAN - Before you sell your home, agree to a listing

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS - Strong sales in higher-cost coastal regions and heated market conditions drove California'’s median home price to its highest level in March since May

"For sellers, stick with the comparables and don"t be overzealous in pricing your property. For buyers, get yourself pre-approved for a mortgage before you start looking and be

Ask any underwater homeowner to tell you their biggest fear about selling their home and moving on and you get two answers: "I will never buy again." "I will not

There's something both benevolent and sinister about this real estate agent. You'd like to join him for a spot of tea, but you wouldn't want to meet him in

LAURA N. OATLEY - Your home has languished unsold on the market for months, but you can't fathom why. Chances are, you've overlooked what buyers really want. Let's take

Selling a home can come with unexpected chores and costs but taking some key steps can help keep you under budget on costs and on target for the

KIM CLARK – Spring is in the air and right now, many homeowners begin to consider putting their homes up for sale. If you are one of those homeowners,

Sure it's a sellers' market, but that doesn't mean it's a fool proof market. Sellers who approach the market like a cocky kid who thinks he or she knows

DATAQUICK - An estimated 28,719 new and resale houses and condos sold statewide last month. That was down 0.5 percent from 28,871 in January, and down 3.1 percent

"The last time the number of homes sold exceeded the historical average for a given month was back in 2006." DATAQUICK - San Francisco Bay Area home sales eased

The South San Francisco Bay Area's tumbling supply of homes for sale is causing prices to skyrocket, sales to crash and some market watchers to, well, see bubble. With

Movoto looked at California's 10 largest cities (by population) to get a better idea of what caused the state's turnaround from a buyer's market to a seller's market

JESSI HALL - Prepping a home to sell? There's some serious work cut out for you because your property will elicit an immediate emotional response from buyers. To make

Demand for homes in Silicon Valley's low-inventory housing market, along with easier credit is generating extreme dot-com-boom-like bidding wars. Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley), home to 1.8 million people,

The median home sale price continues to grow by double-digits in the South San Francisco Bay Area, but with such a shortage of inventory and fewer new listings,

When it's time to sell your home, it's the little things that count. Here's a hot list of cool moves that make your home more saleble, at a higher