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Signing a Listing Agreement?

When you choose a real estate salesperson to sell your home, you will be required to sign a listing agreement - a contract in which you agree to allow the salesperson to sell your home during a given period and at a given commission rate. The agreement says that you will pay the Real Estate Professional a fee when you sell your home. Most real estate salespeople are independent contractors who work for a company operated by a licensed real es…

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Top 10 House Moving Tips

This week we thought we would share some really useful tips for when you are moving house. We know how stressful this can be so we put together the following list to make your life easier. (Special thanks to our friend Andrew Duncan for his input.) Pack an overnight bag containing all your essentials.You will be pretty worn out at the end of moving day so you’ll want easy access to your essentials, including a change of clothes if you’re g…

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Are apartments a worthwhile investment?

Q: We are thinking of selling our home in St Heliers and buying a luxury apartment somewhere closer to the city, but will we get the same capital gain with an apartment? Bruce L. A: Unfortunately no-one can accurately predict what will happen to house prices, or to apartment prices for that matter. There was a time when investing in apartments was considered to be a far inferior choice to buying a home or duplex. The value of real estate is …

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Ten More Top Moving Tips

Here is the second instalment of our moving tips. Buy a roll of stretch wrap.It works like gladwrap but on a bigger scale. You can group items together, and it’ll protect your furniture from getting scuffed and scratched. Keep sandwich bags handy for holding any small parts of things you have to take apart, like curtain rods or mounted flat-screen TVs.Tape the sandwich bags to the back of the item they correspond to. You can also use this…

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