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6 Home Renovations That INCREASE Property Value for Resale Bay Area Tech Realtor Spencer Hsu talks about the best home improvement tips, to help you sell your home for top dollar before listing the property for sale.   0:51 - Paint 2:25 - Landscaping 3:32 - Flooring 5:37 - Bathroom Remodel 6:48 - Lighting  7:56 - Kitchen Remodel Looking for a real estate agent in your city? I have a network of top...

Check out a recording of my latest weekly market update. https://youtu.be/cPem2xORPXI 1) 0:42 Shelter in place extended but certain rules relaxed. Starting May 4 https://bit.ly/3aSmPOI 2) 3:30 Loan applications jump 12% week over week https://bit.ly/2YqHlTJ 3) 4:54 Facebook ad earning stabilized in April https://cnb.cx/2Sq2GsU 4) 6:36 HELOCs at Wells Fargo and Chase no longer available. Tightening...

Every Wednesday at 12PM PST, I will interview and introduce 1-2 top producers all across the country to hear about how they got into the business, what they are seeing with real estate impacts with COVID, and how they are shifting their business. I personally rely on data sources from these top producing agents as not all opinions should be weighed equally. Tune in via Facebook Live either on my p...

Every Tuesday, I post a topic of questions I commonly get from clients. The most commonly asked question is whether this recession will be as bad as 2008 for the real estate market which I give a strong no. It's important to understand what happened in the past. Politics aside, homeowners were overleveraged. 1) Banks knew the properties they had to absorb had no equity so they wanted to get it...

Topics discussed today! 1) 3:34 Offmarket changes https://bit.ly/2VUVnu5 2) 6:42 Unemployment Figures, Rental Market, Multifamily opportunities. If you are interested in Multifamily investment vehicles, let me know as they are typically for accredited investors only. https://cnb.cx/2Vzc7bc 3) 11:50 Credit Markets Update https://on.wsj.com/2VYzjyz https://bit.ly/2VAM97m 4) 17:00 Alameda County Data...

I created a weekly FAQ series since I'm sure others may want to know the answers to questions I commonly get. I strongly believe that real estate is a mix of emotion and data which is why I made this specific video as to how I work with my clients to determine the market value of a home. This is 1 of 4 components of a home value but it gives you the data angle of my formula. List price is a ma...

Check out my weekly live show! Here are the things covered this week with Christie Xie out of Boston. She can be reached at cxie@nuage.group and/or (617)678-3889 1:55 Market Update Boston 11:47 Market Analysis of San Mateo County https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ ... 19:52 Boston local protocols 21:39 Bay Area Local Protocols 26:24 New Marketing Best Practices 28:05 When do you believe Shelter...

Homebuying can be daunting but with the right education, there are 7 key steps to go from idea to home ownership. Whether this is your first time, or this is your 5th time, I'm sure you will learn things from my approach that you won't from others. 7 Critical steps to buying a home in the Bay Area 0:55 Step 1 What is your motivation? 2:43 Step 2 Talk to a lender and get pre-approved 5:24 S...

Check out my weekly live show! Here are the things covered this week: 1) 1:02 Current protocol for seeing houses https://www.samcar.org/posts/what-doe... 2) 2:05 Mortgage guidelines have tightened https://www.housingwire.com/articles/... 3) 3:44 Construction is no longer an essential service https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/3... 4) 5:15 Market Analysis of Santa Clara County https://docs.google....