There are a lot of homes on the market in Northwest Arkansas and around the country. Depending on the area and price of your home, you may be competing with ten, fifty, even hundreds of other properties. Here are easy staging tips to help you differentiate your property and make it stand out in a buyer's mind. You never get a second chance...at a first impression The view of your home from the road should be as stunning as possible. Make sure... Lawn is mowed, edged, and free from debris. If your door and shutters are different colors, repaint the door to match or paint to the one that is more neutral in color. Make sure gutters are clear and free of debris. Power wash windows and siding or brick. This makes your home sparkle . Clean up and put fresh mulch in flower beds. This makes the... 06/18/2009

  Much happened in January, a presidential inauguration, a tough economy, a slow realization by the American public that we’re not quite out of the woods yet.  As the coldest of winter slides behind us so to does the worst of housing crisis, or so we hope.  Foreclosures made up a fair percentage of property sales in January as evidenced by the numbers.  Below is the January 2009 Northwest Arkansas home prices and market report from EXITrealestate540.com, Bon Appetito. Northwest Arkansas Home Prices There are currently some 5500 homes listed for sale in northwest Arkansas with an average Days on Market of 176.  It looks like 208 properties sold in the month of January and 277 went pending.  The fact that the number of homes pending is higher by a third than the number of homes sold is a ... 02/26/2009

The housing market in Northwest Arkansas is being affected across the board from small single family homes and apartments to sprawling luxury estates.  Highly customized luxury homes - from Chuchhill Downs in Springdale to Pinnacle Subdivision in Rogers to Talamore in Bentonville - are sitting on the market, waiting for the right buyer and the right price.  Find out why these high-end luxury homes are known throughout the real estate industry as ‘White Elephants.' What's a White Elephant? According to Wikipedia, a white elephantis a valuable possession which its owner cannot dispose of and whose cost (and upkeep) exceeds its usefulness.  The phase comes from Burma, Thailand, Laos and other southeast Asian countries' Monarchs who kept the sacred animals as a sign of peace and prosperity ... 01/06/2009