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If selling your home in 2010 is in your plans, keep these simple tips in mind (and call us for a complimentary analysis of your home’s market value).

The turn-around in home prices seen in the Spring and Summer has faded with only seven of the 20 cities seeing month-to-month gains, although all 20 continue to show improvements on a year-over-year basis. All in all, this report should be described as flat.

So many of the buyers in the market this time of year are investors who are devouring up the pre-foreclosures and the post-foreclosure listings, or at least are attempting to do so. And 56% of those pre and post foreclosure listings purchased in the last 30 days were all cash deals. Year-to-date, 46% of all brokered residential sales…

Here’s a look at what characteristics most affected home values whether positively or negatively.

I’ve received many e-mails in the last few days, mostly from mortgage companies, alerting me that the home buyer tax credit has been extended and expanded. There’s no doubt that the tax credit, originally set to expire at the end of November, 2009, was successful in getting more first-time home buyers to take the plunge. [...]