Cincinnati Real Estate: Homeowners Swap Houses in Home Swapping

Posted on Jun 15 in Cincinnati Real Estate, Home Buyer Resource, Home Seller Resource
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House swapping, the practice of exchanging properties is making a resurgence with help from a  number of home swapping websites and services.  Home owners who are interested in searching for others willing to exchange properties now have a number of resources to use  to make their searches more fruitful.

Property owners are using sites such as onlinehousetrading.com ,  mkhomeswap.com , and besthouseswap.com to identify potential swap partners in the areas they are looking to relocate to. The reach of the Internet is making finding those elusive swap partners easier and faster.

In most cases these swap site require a registration fee that can range from $20 to over $250. Also the idea of a swap can be misleading. In most cases homeowners negotiate sale prices and work with real estate attorneys and mortgage lenders to facilitate property exchanges particularly when there is a difference in value between the properties. House swapping could be a for home owners looking to sell their Cincinnati Real Estate.

Cincinnati – a Great Marketplace for Vets and Graphic Artists

Posted on Jul 16 in Cincinnati Real Estate, Mortgages and Finance
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Businessweek recently published a report on the top and bottom cities for specific job functions and who would have thought that Cincinnati would appear twice in the list. According to their research that looks at average pay for the job function and then takes into account the cost of living Cincinnati is the 2nd best city to live if you are a graphic artist, or a veterinary technician.

The importance of this article is that Cincinnati is a an affordable place to live for a number of different professions, in part because housing a large part of cost-of-living index. Some employers have improved relocation packages to relocating more attractive, in some cases covering the loss on a sale of a home. This is particularly valuable to those relocating from areas hit hardest by the housing slump in Florida, California, and Arizona. To find out about your city’s Cost of Living Index click here.