Check out these five great tips to help you sell your luxury home more quickly and for the most money:

Tips to sell your luxury home quickly

1. Make the Right First Impression

We cannot understate how important that first impression is, especially if you're trying to sell your luxury or waterfront home. Whether you enhance the curb appeal with newer landscaping or get a new front door or get the home professionally staged, buyers will be influenced by that all-important first impression.

2. Market Your Home Through Many Avenues

Just like advertising for your business, you need to advertise your luxury home to help get it sold. That means exposing it to as many potential buyers around your Bay Head area as possible through the internet, social media, newspaper ads, video and…

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NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT LUXURY REAL ESTATE BROKERAGES IN THE WORLD

Clayton & Clayton Realtors Inc. Becomes Exclusive Leverage Global Partner for Bay Head, NJ.

 

F. Ron Smith, President of Leverage Global Partners, recently welcomed Clayton & Clayton Realtors Inc. as the Network’s exclusive member in Bay Head, NJ. A unique alignment of the most prestigious independent real estate brokerage firms around the world, Leverage Global Partners offers its members the opportunity to better serve their clients’ relocation and real estate portfolio needs by establishing each member firm as key players in the international real estate arena.

We personally vet each real estate brokerage before offering them membership, so we are certain that Clayton &…

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With just a couple of weeks left before school starts and the lazy, hazy days of summer begin to cool off, a bit of a slowdown in the Ocean County real estate market is not unusual during the summer months. But even with a bit of a slow summer, the overall picture looks pretty good for Ocean County real estate and home sales.

The median sales price of a home in Ocean County this past July was $275,000, up $11,000 from July 2013. In addition, the July 2014 median price of an Ocean County condo-townhome was $182,500 - up $12,500 from July 2013. Not to mention adult community homes sold more an average of 18.8% more this July than July of last year.

Another factor from this past July over July 2013 is single-family home sellers in Ocean County said…

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Home Improvments, worthy home renovations

If you're going to do home improvements before you sell your home or just because it's time to take care of something in your house, there are renovations that pay off and improvements that don't really bring in much of a return. The average project only returns 66 cents for every dollar spent! Read on to learn what will pay the most dividends should you decide to sell your home.

Practical, Mid-range Projects Are Best

If you'd like to get 96.6% return on an upgrade, go out and get yourself a fancy new front door. Get one that's a mid-range steel door with a clear dual-pane half glass panel. While you're at it, get a new set of locks for it as well and add some new security. According to Remodeling Magazine, it will cost you (on average) $1,162…

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A new report from newsworks.org says the long-awaited construction of the steel seawall, that will protect Mantoloking and parts of Brick, NJ, from future super storms like Sandy, is set to begin in June.

A company called EIC Associates out of Springfield was awarded the contract (worth $23.8 million) by the state of New Jersey. As part of the winning bid, the contract stipulates the wall must be built within 180 days, meaning it should be done around November, 2014. The project cost will run up to about $40 million, with the federal government covering 80% of the costs, with the state picking up the tab on the remaining 20%.

The plan calls for 45-ft. high steel sheet pile to be driven vertically 30 feet into the ground, creating the foundation of…

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Know When To Sell Your Investment

when to sell an invesment home

Homes in the Bay Head and Mantoloking areas, along with many shore communities in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, are priced to sell and, behind the scenes, investors have been buying homes in the area for less than their previous value. Most investors already have homes of their own, and generally hold onto their investment home until they think it's a good time to sell and make the most money.

However, sometimes an investor who maybe wanted to quickly flip a home doesn't do so right away because the return would be too low. So he or she is forced to wait until home prices rise and during that time, they rent out the home.

Because of this, there are many property owners who are now wondering if this is a good…

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