With December almost here, there is no better holiday gift to pursue than your first home.

Whether you’re an investor or someone who’s home-shopping -- or even just thinking about buying or selling in the near future, you might be in the market for a real estate agent, or a company that can get the job done for you as seamlessly as possible.

We’ve all heard about it by now: Houses are selling like crazy (and they have been for quite some time now), interest rates have been at all-time lows, and it seems like everywhere you turn, you learn of another wild real estate story.