Start with the product you will be marketing. While you are putting your house into top-notch presentation shape, first banish any temptation to overlook areas that need elbow grease or budget dollars to bring them up to top condition. Any defects that go uncorrected will be reason for lowered offers …

When it comes to making legal distinctions, the ones connected with buying and selling Myrtle Beach houses have lasting consequences—so it’s important that they be the intentional kind. Although Three Dog Night might have sincerely believed that One is the Loneliest Number—that’s not necessarily the case when it comes to …

For years, there was little debate about the need for open houses in Myrtle Beach: almost without exception, unless the seller of a Myrtle Beach home objected, at least one or two open houses were an accepted part of how most real estate agents went about marketing the property.

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“WHY YOUR RENT CHECK JUST KEEPS GOING UP” was the headline in CNN Money’s real estate special report last month, which could have explained to Myrtle Beach renters why it is that U.S. rents keep rising faster than home values. After all, that doesn’t seem to make sense!

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In case you set your alarm clock to go off when it was time to buy a home, that clang you may be hearing from somewhere in the distance could be it (figuratively speaking, of course). The reason has to do with the direction of Myrtle Beach mortgage rates (among …

Myrtle Beach home buying activity may be going great guns, but for some would-be buyers, credit score woes are still a stubborn obstacle. That’s why we have been keeping an eye on the new pilot project that was announced late last year. This was the one called the "Wealth Building …

Today’s Myrtle Beach real estate market is an alien landscape compared with what it was ten years ago, when it seemed as if a seller could just plant a sign in the front yard and wait for competing offers to roll in. This summer’s real estate scene is equally unlike …

Putting together a Myrtle Beach listing is serious business. It has to be brief, to-the-point, and at the same time, engaging. The photos and language of a Myrtle Beach listing is the tip of the marketing spear: if it’s dull, and just a repetition of the specifics that are enumerated …

If you are one of those Myrtle Beach homeowners who has been gladdened to see property values continuing to rebound, you have also been pleased at the steady decline in the wave of foreclosures that were part of the global financial crisis. When the subprime mortgage crisis triggered widespread financial …

A Myrtle Beach listing can be a smash hit when the pictures show a property that’s cosmetically appealing, the copy rings true, and the details hit the sweet spot where features and value are a match for the best the area has to offer. But it still might not be …