Michael Corbett

Michael Corbett is Trulia’s real estate and lifestyle expert. He hosts NBC’s EXTRA’s Mansions and Millionaires. In additional to his regular segments on ABC’s The View and Fox News, he is a national best selling author with three critically acclaimed real estate books: Find It, Fix It, FLIP IT!; Ready, Set, SOLD! and Before You BUY!

Top 10 Sins of Selling

Are you working to win your sellers over? Check out this great handout from Trulia’s real estate and lifestyle expert and host of NBC’s EXTRA’s Mansions and Millionaires, Michael Corbett. Use it in your listing presentation, client follow-ups and your e-mail newsletters to help sellers see you as the source of real estate smarts.

Reality Check: 5 Facts for Buyers Who Want to Lowball an Offer

A housing transaction, at the most fundamental level, includes one person who wants to sell and one person who wants to buy. Once the terms are agreed upon, voilà! . . . win-win. However, if the seller is miserable with the final terms or feels like they had to settle for a lowball offer, the deal is likely [...]

3 Tips to Avoid Complicated Closings

Your browser does not support iframes. A closing story from The Glamorous Life of a Real Estate Agent – Volume 2: Cops & Robbers: …The sellers were very upset and we had no explanation of what happened. We could not understand why [the buyer] had been willing to close an hour before and then we [...]

Five Listing Description Deal Killers (and makers)

Every aspect of a listing’s marketing can impact its sale price, even the word choice. For agents, making sure descriptions capture a serious buyers attention is key to getting your sellers the most money. When describing a home, the details matter. In the bestselling book Freakonomics, authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner explain that “An [...]

Pricing Matters: Using List vs. Sales Price to Stay a Step Ahead

As savvy agents know, the only way to know what a house is worth is by knowing what other comparable houses, or “comps,” in the neighborhood for sale are worth. Contrary to what our parents taught us growing up, this is one of those cases where the true value doesn’t come from within…it’s actually based [...]