25 North Street in Bedford Hills: 1,248 sq. feet, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, listed for $415,000; sold for $392,000, approx. 23 weeks on market. 416 Bedford Road in Bedford Hills: 2,025 sq. feet, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, listed for $445,000; sold for $441,000, approx. 13 weeks on market. 18 Cat Rocks Drive in Bedford: 2,304 sq. feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, list price $599,750; sold for $525,000, approx. 49 weeks on market. 15 Dogwood Road in Bedford: 1,760 sq. feet, 4 bedrooms, 1 ½ baths, list price $699,000, sold for $655,000., approx. 18 weeks on market. 7 Homestead Lane in Bedford: 2,185 sq. feet, 3 …
If the number one realtor mantra is location, location, location, mantra number two is condition, condition, condition. When sellers prepare to put their home on the market, an area that is often overlooked is curb appeal. That means that your chance to wow the buyer with a good first impression starts before they ever even get to the front door. A helpful exercise in analyzing your home's curb appeal is to step across the street and take a critical look at the front of your property. What do you see? Analzying curb appeal will do more than make your home HGTV ready, says local arborist …
Understanding today's real estate market can be very confusing with conflicting news reports and sound bites showing the market going up and down at the same time. For example, a recent headline from the National Association of Realtors read: "Existing-Home Sales Continue to Improve in April," but in the same week, Housing Wire, a blog which compiles wire stories and original articles about US mortgages and housing, reported on the same information but with this conflicting headline. "Is May's Home Sales Decline an Alarming Signal of What's To Come?" Reports from the National Association …
