Last week, home sellers saw more than the usual number of reasons to look forward to this spring’s selling season. It looked like the opposite of the lengthy real estate “Perfect Storm” that caused freefall across the national landscape.

which day of the week is best for launching your Sherman Oaks listing. The author, Sanette Tanaka, brought up several ways to look at the question.

You could have easily missed it here in Encino -- an attention-grabbing event that happened just before New Years Day. One of those San Francisco Bay Area luxury properties (priced at $25 million) made headlines when

Doing so would dovetail nicely with my own New Year’s prediction: 2013 is the year buyers and sellers are going to really get serious about real estate.

When it comes to the appraisal, I will admit to being one Realtor who favors the proactive approach. One way to help assure the right outcome at appraisal