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The Smart Home Gift Guide for Everyone on Your List

Whether it’s a customizable light show in the backyard or a stylish clean-air system for the living room, this list has you covered.As the holiday season approaches, it's the perfect time to consider gifts that enhance the comfort, security and efficiency of homes. These three qualities resonate deeply with real estate professionals and their clients. The following curated selection of smart home devices offers innovative solutions to elevate a

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Homebuyer Inspection Basics Guide

Between signing and close, a homebuyer may choose to have a new home inspected to make sure it is in good condition and safe for a new owner. Here’s what buyers and sellers should know:What is a home inspection?  A home inspection is an assessment of a home’s condition in which an inspector identifies potential problems in a home’s structure, exterior, roof, plumbing, electrical systems, heating and air conditioning, interiors, ventila

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Basic Guide to Mortgages and Financing

Buying a home is one of the largest personal and financial decisions you can make. For many buyers, the process includes finding a loan that will help you pay for your new home over time. An iPro agent can help you learn about your options. Here’s what else you need to know:What is a mortgage, and how do I get one?  A mortgage is a loan offered by a bank or lender that lets you borrow money to purchase a home and repay over time with inte

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Ten Questions to Ask a Seller's Agent

If you’re ready to sell your home, you should feel empowered to find and work with the agent who is the best fit for your needs. Here are ten questions you should consider when selecting an agent:1. Are you a REALTOR®? When you work with an agent who is a REALTOR®, you are working with a professional guided by ethical duties under the REALTOR® Code of Ethics, including the pledge to protect and promote the interests of their clients.2. W

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3 Hot Bathroom Trends, Spa-Like with Some Organic Feels

A mix of hand-crafted materials, beautiful lighting and a vibe of serenity are trending in bathroom design. Sometimes the look comes off as bold, sometimes it’s more subtle. Fixr, a home remodeling website, surveyed about 70 top interior designers and home staging experts to uncover some of the biggest trends in bathroom design. Here’s what topped designers’ lists:Organic Design Organic materials can include wood and stone to channel some e

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4 Hot Kitchen Trends

“Functional elegance” is the new mantra in kitchen design.All-white and gray-hued kitchens are fading in popularity. Instead, warmer and darker woods and mixed metals are “creating quiet and understated luxury in the space,” Anna Gibson, owner and chief designer at AKG Design Studio, told the home remodeling site Fixr for its 2024 kitchen trends report.Fixr surveyed about 70 top interior designers and home staging experts to uncover

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The Dark Painted Room Hot Home Trend

Lighter colors can certainly add a clean, fresh and bright look to interiors, but in a few spots in the home, homeowners are wanting to add a little more drama. They’re painting rooms black, a charcoal gray, chocolate brown or a deep navy or green. The richness of the darker colors can make the space stand out, particularly when the surrounding home interiors are wrapped in otherwise light, neutral colors.Check out some of these interiors showi

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3 Ways AI is Changing Proptech

AI is improving building design, operations and space planning. Here’s how.It’s no small wonder that AI has been quickly absorbed into proptech. Real estate and facilities management have always embraced tools that drive efficiency in the built environment. But it also means that property managers need to accelerate their digital strategy to keep pace.  “We are owners of concrete, steel and earth, but we have to transform into a tech b

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Top Home Features Swaying Buyer Purchase Decisions

A new study suggests touting these property upgrades in your listing description to achieve a quicker sale.Vanity lighting, butcher block countertops and electric vehicle chargers are home features to rave about, according to a new study(link is external) from Frontdoor, a home maintenance company. Researchers honed in on about 100 trending home features and identified listings with these items to see if those homes tended to sell faste

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