So you're thinking about selling your home here in Boca Raton, but you wanna avoid the three biggest mistakes that sellers make all the time. Well in this video, we're gonna go over what those three biggest mistakes are and how you can avoid them.

The first mistake we see sellers make all the time is not looking up an agent's reviews prior to interviewing them or to hiring them. Google is a great place you can start. People google everything. So if a realtor doesn't have a profile on Google, that could be a red flag, but check to see if there's any reviews on Google. Another place you could see reviews is Zillow.

Zillow is not just a great place for buyers, but for sellers to start their search for an agent. So you can go to Zillow, you can…

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So you're thinking about buying a house. You have your down payment saved, but you wanna know how much you can expect to pay in closing costs. Well, in this video, we're gonna break down what closing costs are here in South East Florida and what you can expect to pay to purchase your next home.

In addition to the down payment that you need to save in order to buy a house, you also have to save up for closing costs. So what are closing costs? Well, they can be split into two distinct categories.

One are your hard closing costs. These are the costs that you're not gonna get back if you were to sell the next day. Then the next is your prepaid items. So when you buy a house, there are certain things you have to pay in advance like insurance and…

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I wanna talk about some of the red flags and the issues that I see in the South Florida housing market. If you've heard anything about real estate in 2020, you've probably heard that home prices are going up. And that's very true, especially here in South Florida. It probably differs depending on where you are, but in South Florida for sure, home prices have been going up. Since about April when they lifted that original lockdown, it's just been a straight shot up like this.

In November of 2020, compared to February of 2020, before the pandemic really took hold everywhere, home prices are up about 11% here in South Florida, at least in the areas that we sell. So if you own a $400,000 home before the pandemic, it's probably worth a little more…

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Hey, it's Andy with the Mandel Team at RE/MAX, and I'm here to bring you your January, 2020, housing market update. As always for the purposes of this video, we're gonna be talking about single family homes only in Boca, Parkland and Coral Springs. Those are the areas where our team does the predominant amount of our business. When we talk about Boca, we're not talking about country clubs or 55 and over communities, it's single family homes only, no condos, no townhouses. Those are other markets, they're completely different so we're gonna focus on single family homes only. In this video, because it's the end of the year and the beginning of 2020, we're gonna talk about how December of 2020 did compare it to December, 2019; and then we're gonna talk…

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