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Our Complete Seller’s Guide

The Goodhart Group

Our Complete Seller's Guide by The Goodhart Group provides valuable tips and advice for selling a home. It covers topics such as choosing a realtor, preparing your home for sale, the selling process, handling offers, and more.

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The Guidebook for Sellers

EMTAR

The Guidebook for Sellers is a collection of how-tos, checklists, and worksheets designed to help sellers understand the real estate experience. It covers topics such as working with a realtor, property preparation, the transaction process, and moving.

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Choosing a Real Estate Agent: An Evaluation of Information Sources About Quality of Service

Stephen Brobeck

Choosing a Real Estate Agent: An Evaluation of Information Sources About Quality of Service is a report that examines the lack of information available to home sellers and buyers when choosing a real estate agent. It discusses the importance of agent experience and detailed client reviews as indicators of quality of service and evaluates different sources of information, highlighting Zillow agent profiles as the most useful.

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42 Rules of modern real estate negotiation

Neil Jenman

42 Rules of Modern Real Estate Negotiation by Neil Jenman is an indispensable guide for real estate agents who want to help homeowners sell their properties for the highest price. It emphasizes ethical duty, decency, decision-making, tolerating conduct, cultural styles, and clear objectives in real estate negotiation.

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Real Estate as an Investment

Urbi Garay

Real Estate as an Investment is a chapter that provides an overview of real estate as an investment, discussing its attributes, asset allocation, categories, and return drivers. It highlights the potential advantages and disadvantages of including real estate in an investment portfolio, emphasizing factors such as absolute returns, inflation hedging, diversification, steady cash inflows, and income tax advantages.

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The Real Estate Marketplace Glossary: How to Talk the Talk

Federal Trade Commission

The Real Estate Marketplace Glossary: How to Talk the Talk is a comprehensive glossary that explains common terms used in the real estate and mortgage marketplace. It covers topics such as mortgage options, credit reports, loan applications, contracts, appraisals, escrow accounts, and more.

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Commercial Real Estate Investing 101

RealCrowd

Commercial Real Estate Investing 101 provides an overview of commercial real estate investing, including the benefits, types of assets, and investment strategies.

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Fundamentals of Real Estate

Dr. James R. DeLisle

Fundamentals of Real Estate is a document that explores the behavioral science of real estate. It discusses the unique nature of the real estate market and the interdisciplinary nature of the real estate discipline. The document covers topics such as market segmentation, perception, behavioral models of decision-making, and land economics theories.

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Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions

Steven D. Levitt and Chad Syverson

Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions, explores how real estate agents, who possess more information about the housing market than homeowners, may exploit their informational advantage. The study finds that homes owned by real estate agents sell for about 3.7 percent more and stay on the market about 9.5 days longer compared to other houses, even after controlling for housing characteristics.

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The Investor’s Guide to REITs

NAREIT

The Investor’s Guide to REITs by NAREIT is a comprehensive guide to the Real Estate Investment Trust industry. It covers the basics of REITs, their inclusion in S&P Indexes, fundamentals, returns, valuation, benefits of real estate in portfolios, REIT sectors, and more.

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Beginner's Guide to Being a Real Estate Agent

Placester

Beginner's Guide to Being a Real Estate Agent is a comprehensive guide for individuals who have recently obtained their real estate license. It provides insights into the challenges and decisions faced by new agents, offers tips on setting goals and developing a client list, and covers topics such as marketing, technology, and performance evaluation.

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8-Step complete guide for preparing your house for sale

Home Moving Planners

8-Step complete guide for preparing your house for sale, provides a comprehensive guide with eight steps to prepare your house for sale, focusing on attracting potential buyers through street appeal, basic maintenance and repair, neutralizing the interior, depersonalizing and decluttering, cleaning, property styling, and effective marketing strategies.

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