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How to Choose Your Next Neighborhood

Choosing a neighborhood is one of the most important decisions you’ll have when choosing a new home. Here’s how to find the one that fits you best.

Selling a Home

7 Home Staging Secrets: Lighting Can Make All The Difference

Lighting can make all the difference when you’re trying to sell a house. We’re sharing seven staging tips to make your home light, bright, and dazzling.

Home Values

The Hidden Costs of Buying a Condo

A condo can be a more affordable option than buying a single-family house, but there are hidden costs that can drive up the expense quickly. Here’s what to know before buying a condo.

Renting

What to Know Before You Search for Your Next Rental

Looking for a new place to rent? Homes.com has your back. Let’s review everything you need to know when searching for a rental.

Buying

Buyers and Their Tech: How Technology Can Help You Find Your Next Home

Technology has become an integral part of the home buying process, and more than 97 percent of home buyers start their home search online. Today, the technology goes far beyond images and a price. Here’s how to incorporate technology into your home buying journey.

Moving

Walk Scores, Bike Scores, Transit Scores, and Sound Scores: How to Use Them in Your House Hunting Journey

Learn how to interpret the different data points like walk scores, bike scores, and transit scores.

Buying

How School Ratings Can Affect Home Values and Prices

Schooling options have a huge impact on residential real estate, with 23 percent of all home buyers factoring the school district into their home buying decisions. This has both positive and negative consequences on communities. Here’s why.

Buying

Make the Most of Your Next Home Tour with This Handy Checklist

Touring homes is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. This checklist will help you know what to ask and what to look for.

Buying

How to Find a Home Online

An impressive 97 percent of home buyers look for homes online. Here’s how to navigate through all of the features and information you’ll find.

Building a Home, Buying

Why New Construction Homes Are Appealing to New Home Buyers

Many Americans have a goal to put down roots and become responsible for their own little corner of the world. Here’s why new construction is so appealing to them.

First Time Home Buyer's Guide

What Are the Hidden Costs of Home Ownership?

It’s one of the most expensive investments you’ll make, but the cost doesn’t stop at the mortgage payment. Discover the hidden costs of buying a home.

Buying

Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Home Types

What kind of home would you like to purchase? Besides “location,” this is one of the most important decisions a prospective buyer will make. Some of the main classifications for home types are single-family homes, condos, or townhomes.

Buying

Find the Perfect Home in the Perfect Location with Our Map Feature

Looking for a house in a specific location? The Homes.com map can help you pinpoint the area you want so you can find the perfect house.

Buying, Finance, Mortgage 101

Understanding Your Home Appraisal

After your offer is accepted, the race to closing is on! One of the hurdles in your path to homeownership will be the appraisal. Here’s what you need to know.

Buying, Finance, Home Improvement

Should You Invest in a Fixer-Upper?

Buying a fixer-upper can either be a great investment or a money pit. Here’s how to choose the right house for you and your family.

Buying

Should You Avoid Contingencies in a Seller’s Market?

Should you sacrifice contingencies in order to get your offer accepted? In a seller’s market, some buyers may choose to, but there’s risk involved.

Open House sign if front of house for sale

Buying, Selling a Home

Open House Etiquette

Open houses can be great for buyers, sellers, and agents. But if you’ve never attended or hosted one before, you might be wondering what’s considered appropriate and what isn’t.

Buying

How to Avoid a Disaster When Buying Sight Unseen

Thinking about buying a house sight unseen? These tips could help you avoid disaster!

Moving

Tips for Moving with Kids

Moving with kids comes with its own challenges. Here’s how to help your kids through the move, whether it’s across town or across the country.

Selling a Home

Things To Do Before Selling a Home

It’s time to sell your home. But before you find an agent and put your house on the market, do these things.

Buying

How to Find the Best Real Estate Agent

Whether buying or selling, finding the right real estate agent is the first step on your journey. Here’s how to find an agent using Homes.com.

Buying, Home Improvement, Selling a Home

How to Know If It’s Time to Sell Your House

Should you stay or should you go? Making the decision to sell your house isn’t easy. Here’s how to decide if the time is right.

Building a Home, New Home Construction

Why Pay for a Pre-Drywall Inspection?

Do you need a pre-drywall inspection? What is it, anyway? When building a house, this inspection could be crucial. Here’s why.

Home Improvement

Summer Home Maintenance Checklist

It’s summertime, and while that means plenty of sun and fun, it also means home maintenance. The high temperatures, storms, and heat can take a toll on your house, inside and out. Here are some things to do as summer heats up.