For sellers whose houses have languished on the market for some time, it's all about your home's saleability quotient (SQ). You have to stand out from the crowd.
The dream of most couples used to be 2.5 kids and a house in the suburbs surrounded by a white picket fence. Now, according to municipal planners, families should scratch out "suburbs" and insert "smart growth urban communities" instead.
In North America, we obsess about hand sanitizer and scrub our fruits and vegetables until every vestige of mud in an effort to protect ourselves from bacteria we believe will make us ill. Well, as it turns out, our preoccupation with cleanliness may actually be making us sick.
Remember the starter home: that first house young couples dreamed of, saved for and finally purchased? It represented their first - but likely not their last - entry into the real estate market.