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Want to get more bang for your buck when selling your luxury home? Explore a couple of additions and improvements that have been shown to be the most profitable in luxury homes. When it comes time to sell your luxury home, you want to ensure you’re receiving the biggest bang for your buck. Typically this means making sure that any …

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Now, what does that mean for Orange County real estate? Active Inventory – The active inventory climbed all year and peaked much later than normal. The year started with an active inventory of 3,397 homes. It was the second lowest start to a year behind 2013’s incredibly low 3,161 homes. Ever since the Great Recession, the trend …

Selling your home through the holiday season can certainly come with a few challenges. Chilly, wet weather and falling leaves in November and December might mean more raking and shoveling to keep your home pristine. However, the damp weather and dark skies don’t have to squelch your holiday spirit. In fact, the holidays are a perfect time to showcase the …

Now that the Holiday Market is here, housing shifts to its slowest time of the year. Holiday Market: The slowest time of the year, the Holiday Market, runs from Thanksgiving through the first couple of weeks of the New Year. This is the time of the year where the country gets pummeled by blizzards, freezing temperatures, and undrivable roads. School days …

When we think of wall treatments, we often focus on wallpaper, paint or architectural moldings rather than on shelves or bookcases, even if they’re built-in. Shelves are viewed as having more in common with extraneous wall hangings, such as art and mirrors, than with feature walls. And yet, there’s that rare shelving unit that houses our books and knickknacks in …