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Are you interested in making your home more energy-efficient — and saving money? Discover whether there are some big (or small) energy-saving opportunities that you're missing.

Do you want to buy a home? (No, that isn't one of the questions.) If the answer, however, is "yes," then there are more questions you'll need to ponder before you're truly ready -- even if this is your fifteenth fix-and-flip instead of your very first home.

How do you know if a home’s price is competitive as either a buyer or a seller? The only way to know for sure is to talk to a professional — either an appraiser or a real estate agent — but if you want to do some research on your own, here’s where to…

A well-designed kitchen will go a long way in increasing your home’s value and upping the enjoyment of the room where you spend most of your time. Here are five gorgeous kitchen trends you’ll love.

Establishing yourself as a community and working together with your neighbors is one of the best ways to increase feelings of safety while actually reducing crime in your area. Here's how to get started.

Home renovations are more popular than ever before, but this isn't a journey for the faint of heart. To streamline the process and set yourself up for success, avoid these mistakes:

If you’ve never owned a home before, cleaning it from top to bottom for the first time can feel like a daunting task. Here’s a guide to deep-cleaning your house.

It's that time of year again -- when agents start taking stock of their business over the past several months and start deciding what next year is going to look like. Some agents thrive on business planning and don't need to be nudged to work on an outline for their…

There's a general worldview that the younger generations will never be able to achieve homeownership because housing values have outpaced wage growth for decades. This is absolutely true, and we're not downplaying the seriousness of affordability issues ... but, actually,…

The first time you heard the term, "escrow" you may have been thrown for a loop. While the word may have had you confused the first time, here are some essential things to know about escrow--what it is, what it's used for, and how it works.

One excellent way to improve your financial profile is to buy a home of your own. But we won't lie: It's a long and potentially incredibly stressful process, especially when it comes to the dollars and cents of securing a mortgage loan.

People have been buying vacation rental properties to generate extra income for decades, but the emergence of Airbnb and other websites that let you book private rooms or entire private homes directly online have created a new era of vacation rental owners. Many of the…