By Brad Walker, CEO and Co-founder of Income& A great deal of the wealth of the top one percent of Americans is built on real estate. Aside from owning your home, it used to be that only the wealthy and well-connected were investing in real estate. Unless you knew the right people and were willing to put up a big chunk of money, there were relatively few methods...
Jane Fonda’s Hollywood home landed on the market this past week for just shy of $13 million. The two-time Oscar winner also posted a video explaining what the estate means to her and why she loves it (featured below). The home spans 7,100 square feet on a 36,000 square foot lot in the coveted Trousdale Estates section of Beverly Hills. The two-story spaces features...
By Meghan Belnap Becoming a homeowner for the first time is an exciting and stressful process. However, once the papers are signed and the keys are in your pocket, your work really begins. Homeownership can be fraught with financial and emotional perils, especially if you've been renting from a landlord up until now. Landlords are on the hook for not only minor...
By Kathleen Peddicord and the Editors of Live and Invest Overseas Looking to invest overseas? Live and Invest Overseas recently released their ranking of the top 9 places to buy real estate overseas in 2017. The top four places hail from Portugal and Colombia. Other locales on the list include the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil and Cape Verde in Africa. 1) Algarve,...
Keeping your home clean can be quite a challenge after a busy holiday season. Here are a few helpful suggestions to ensure that you begin 2017 with a clean house. Plan for Trash It might not seem like a wonderful concept to have small garbage cans in your living room or family room, but putting small trashcans in busy areas will help you better manage the trash in...
Knowing what the law says about disclosure is an important part of the real estate sales process. You need to be aware of what you are expected to disclose to potential buyers, both to avoid breaking any laws and to help you better plan your sales process. Of course as a real estate agent you want to present the best points of the home you're marketing to fetch the...
Wine lovers, lean in! This lush 40-acre estate and vineyard in Napa Valley has hit the ground hard, gunning for $33.15 million. So what can you get for this not-so-small fortune? Located at 2900 Spring Mountain Road in Saint Helena, this 9,600-square-foot luxury residence showboats an 80-foot pool, extensive stone gardens, a guest house and a 2.25-acre primed and...
Looking to grow your business while also snagging some more free time for yourself? You're not alone. The latest in our ACE Webinar Series focused on enhancing success and growing your business while saving time and energy. Sponsored by Homes.com, the webinar featured Joe Sesso, National Speaker & Director of National Sales for Homes.com; Verl Workman, real estate...
Last Friday the 13th truly lived up to the “misfortune” hype with the Netflix release of “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” The sequence of misfortunes, narrated by Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton), begins with Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire (Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, Presley Smith) being informed that their parents have perished in a fire. The children...
Take a field trip to your hometown’s historic district and stroll the sidewalk. Blur the cars out of focus and it’s not hard to imagine what life looked like in decades and centuries past. It’s proof you don’t have to travel to a museum to get a glimpse of history — instead, you can live it every day when you own a home from your favorite decade. To prove...
