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Selling a Home

Getting a home ready to sell takes plenty of work—of both the physical and the paper variety—and you’re bound to have plenty of questions. We’ve found Web sites with reliable answers and guidance to help you smoothly and quickly through the process, and even offer advice if you fear losing your home to foreclosure.

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Steps to Selling a Home

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Should I Sell My Home?

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Sell Your Home Yourself or Hire a Realtor?

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Financial and Legal Aspects of Selling a Home

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Show Your Home

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If Your Home Isn’t Selling

Despite your best efforts, your home might not sell quickly, and it may be due to matters within or beyond your control. Find out what you can do to get things moving with the help of the sites we’ve recommended in this section.

Dulcinea's Insight

If your home is overpriced, or you’re having problems in the negotiation phase, remember that the art of negotiation isn’t specific to selling a home. When researching negotiation tactics, look beyond real estate sites; if an article is offering advice for boardroom negotiation tactics, you may find it just as useful if you can apply its principles to your home-selling negotiations.

Read a bit about market trends and the recent sale history of houses in the neighborhood you are selling in. Public records can be found online and this information may save you from overpricing. Find housing market news and commentary sites in the “Steps to Selling a Home” section of this guide.

You’ll have to think about interest rates when you’re trying to settle on a purchase price for your home, as they can greatly affect buyers’ budgets. We’ve included a site that lists current rates, updated weekly.

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If you have neighborhood problems …

MSN Real Estate has a “Selling Your House” section that offers specific tips for selling your home. Find ideas for dealing with an eyesore next door and suggestions about what problems you should disclose in your home.

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Bankrate.com has some helpful information about disclosure requirements when you are trying to sell your home and you live near a registered sex offender.

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For help making sense of the housing market …

Freddie Mac has compiled a “Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey” for 2008. Find information on interest rates for 15-year and 30-year fixed-rate loans, and five-year and one-year adjustable-rate loans.

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MSNBC offers some tips for selling your home in a cooling market. The article deals primarily with money matters and tells homeowners not to be a “pig” when they set the price of their home.

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