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When it’s time to put your Indianapolis house up for sale, one of the most important built-in marketing tools at your disposal is the write-up at the top of its Indianapolis listing. Ad people call short descriptive essays like this “blurbs.” In Indianapolis listings, its importance is second only to the curb-appeal of the photo that appears above it. When …

“Circumlocution” ­—the hefty word for “beating around the bush”­­—describes what the national real estate news feeds have been practicing for a while when it comes to the state of the marketplace. Until recently, most analysts seemed reluctant to call this spring’s U.S. lineup a “sellers market”—perhaps because the phrase might discourage would-be buyers. That began to change last month. As …

Carmel real estate agents are like everyone else when it comes to Easter Sunday. There is the holiday part, the spiritual part, and the kids-searching-for-hidden-Easter-eggs part. The day can also serve as a sort of mental signpost that reads “Spring is here!” (or something like that). When I think back to major events that happened around this time in years …

Indianapolis real estate agents who happened upon last week’s Wall Street Journal feature might have been jolted by the headline, “How to Sell Your Home Without a Real-Estate Agent.” Why would the Journal—one of the most sophisticated observers of today’s business realities—possibly want to lead readers down the FSBO (For Sale by Owner) path? Don’t actual market results point to …

Fishers readers who perused The Washington Post’s “Real Estate” section recently found a most encouraging piece of information—particularly if they were among many the younger and first-time home seekers who worry about qualifying for a home loan. And by the article’s finale, there was even one conclusion that sober-minded observers might decide had exceeded simple optimism… The headline article— Many …

Amazon—or, more precisely, the Amazon phenomenon—is bound to have an increasing impact on Carmel residential neighborhood preferences. The connection hasn’t yet been widely acknowledged, but it’s hard to deny the logic behind it. The connection I’m pointing to isn’t the web behemoth’s rumored expansion into real estate. That was quietly floated last summer—and just as quickly abandoned. Without ceremony, Amazon …

Can existing home sales slide at the same time they advance? Indianapolis real estate watchers who have heard similar conflicting accounts on successive news reports could be forgiven for deciding somebody is confused. They might be right about that, but in fact, both reports are technically correct. The contradictory accounts may have originated from a press conference held a while …

This Tuesday, Fishers calendars mark the first day of spring: the vernal equinox. The onset of astronomical spring doesn’t quite coincide with Fishers’s real estate spring selling season, which most agree should be considered to start 12 days later, at the start of April. Just about everything you need to know about why we expect Fishers’s spring selling season to …

Last week’s short news item could serve as inspiration for future Fishers first-time homebuyers—especially for those who haven’t yet considered the possibility of owning their own Fishers home. The item in question was news of the passing of the English athlete, Sir Roger Bannister. If that name isn’t familiar, it’s because Bannister’s story has long since faded from the headlines. …

The question posed in last week’s Realtor.com article was certainly scary enough: “Is It Last Call for Low Mortgage Rates?” If you have been putting off getting ready to buy your next Indianapolis home, it could well have been a potent call to action. For the normally staid Realtor, it was an unusually pointed dispatch. The article’s opening line, “All …