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    What exactly is a short sale? Want to Buy a Home?   Search All Homes  Want to Sell a Home? Get a Home Value Report This is a very common question in the Real Estate business and it has a very simple answer.   A short sale is when you have to sell your home for less than you actually owe.   Furthermore, contrary to what the name implies, a short sale has nothing to do with the length of time of the sale.   In fact, a short sale transaction can take up to a few months from start to finish.   I’ve actually seen short sales that took 12 and 18 months to finalize!   The average time for a short sale in our current market, is around three to six months. So how does a short sale work?   Well, let’s say that you’ve owned your home for a period of time and it’s currently worth $300,000 while you still owe $400,000 on the mortgage.   Next, let’s pretend that you’ve come into some sort of hardship and you need to sell...

    How to List Your Home For Sale. Want to Buy a Home? Search All Homes  Want to Sell a Home? Get a Home Value Report If you’re looking to sell your home, the first thing you need to do is give us a call here at the Matin Real Estate Group.   We’re experts at getting property bought and sold here in the Portland & Southwest Washington area.   But until then, let’s talk a little bit about what you can expect once you're ready to list your home. When you meet with us and sign a listing contract, there are a number of things that have to happen before we can go live.   We don’t just sign the paperwork and go live the next day.   In fact, typically we need at least a week (preferably more) to get everything prepped and ready to go.   This gives you time to get the property looking it’s best.   You’ll want to fix up the exterior, get rid of clutter, clean the carpets, etc. and make sure the house is “photo ready.”  ...

  What’s the difference between new home purchases versus the resale purchase of an older home? Want to Buy a Home? Search All Homes  Want to Sell a Home? Get a Home Value Report The first difference is that they are completely different kinds of properties. With a new property, you’re the first one to live there (and this is reflected in its cleanliness, fresh scent, etc.) However, an older home has many positive attributes as well. It may have more traditional charm, or be in a more established neighborhood and you may be able to get a better price. As far as new construction goes, there are often many more accoutrements. These you might even be able to customize, such as the type of countertops, color of paint, fixtures, etc. New construction can often let you choose the neighborhood your interested in, while also being able to customize your new home to your tastes. Typically new home inspections are with the builders themselves. This can often prove to...

    How do you sell your current property & buy a new home at the same time? Want to Buy a Home? Search All Homes  Want to Sell a Home? Get a Home Value Report I often hear from sellers: “we need to find our perfect property before we put our current home on the market.” My first follow-up is will you be paying cash? Or can you finance the new home without selling your current one? If their answer is no, then my logical response is usually that they need to sell their current home first. They usually counter with “we don’t want to sell our home and then have nowhere to go”, or “we don’t want to have to buy something that we’re not thrilled about out of urgency.” This is such a common concern we come across as Real Estate Brokers. We currently have over a dozen agents here at Matin Real Estate who are actively prospecting on a daily basis. This allows us to constantly have new properties that are coming onto the market. So even if it’s not currently...

    Using Our Website Want to Buy a Home? Search All Homes  Want to Sell a Home? Get a Home Value Report Whether you’ve searched for a home to purchase or not, you've no doubt heard of the hundreds (if not thousands) of different home search websites out there.   Well, I’m here to tell you that not all home search sites are created equally.   Here at the Matin Real Estate Group, we use Boomtown to power our website.   Of the top 250 real estate brokers in the country, one third of them use this same platform.   Why do we use Boomtown?   Because it’s hands down the best platform for our clients.    Boomtown updates every five to ten minutes, it’s extremely fast, it has a great mobile platform and it is able to intuitively learn what you’re searching for.   This allows us to create custom searches, tailored to your specific wants and needs.   “    Not all home search sites are created equally....