Articles

• How Affordable is Housing Right Now?
  Property values are up, but carrying costs are way down - real estate is still affordable for most consumers.

  

• Client-Centered Negotiating: A Modest Proposal
  What is Client-Centered Negotiating (CCN)? It's Nazaar Shadir's personalized sales technique, developed over years of practice and experience. It's simple: CCN means putting the client, not the realtor, in the driver's seat. Whether you're a realtor, a first-time buyer or a seller, read on!

  

• Home Carrying Cost
  Monthly Cost of Homeownership

  

• Why You Need a REALTOR on Your Side
  In a perfect world, real estate closings would occur over night, sellers would keep every promise made, and both buyers and sellers would negotiate openly and fairly. Unfortunately, welcome to the real world¡­

  

• Negotiating Tactics & Strategies Can Make or Break the Home Sale
  Property taxes and/or utility bills and condominium common expenses, if any, that have been prepaid by the vendor are pro-rated and paid by the purchaser to the vendor on closing. Or where the Vendor, if any, has not paid up his share of property taxes, utilities and condominium expenses.

  

• Why You Need a REALTOR on Your Side
  The deal sounded too good to be true: a two-story town home, completely gutted and refurbished according to my specifications and design preferences. Coordination of contractors' services and all aspects of the closing and financing were to be handled by an in-house development group - and at a price I could afford. The representative, draped in gold chains and reeking of dime store cologne, grinned at me. "This is the easiest real estate transaction you'll ever have," he assured me, after informing me there was no need to use the Realtor¡­