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Buyers are being picky — here’s how you can navigate it as a real estate agent

Housing Wire

home sales in nearly 30 years as high mortgage rates frustrate buyers, the market is reshaping real estate once again, placing buyers on the back foot and swinging the pendulum back to favoring sellers. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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Our 19-point house-hunting checklist for real estate agents & their clients

Housing Wire

Part of our value as professional real estate agents is helping guide buyers through the process, using our expertise and first-hand experience. Discuss how agents get paid and hire a great agent. Buyers should always hire a real estate agent to represent them. Drive neighborhoods at different times of day.

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Local housing markets: Othello, Osage Beach and Vienna

Housing Wire

It is also the city Jesse “Weno” Dominguez, an agent at Imagine Realty Group, calls home. “I I absolutely love the Columbia Basin and the reason is that we are a unique market. The Lake of the Ozarks has more shoreline than California,” Wade Covington, a local Century 21 Prestige Real Estate agent, said. “It

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What Is a Housing Bubble?

HomeLight

Increase in speculative investing: Investors are trading in high-risk assets , focusing on big returns by leveraging market fluctuations. Overbuilding and bidding wars: Too much construction and competitive offers drive prices higher. Homes selling fast: Homes selling quickly (decreasing days on market ) can indicate a heated market.

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21 Marketing strategies to freshen up a stale listing

Real Trends

A home that might have sold for over-list price in less than a day with multiple offers a few months ago — even with bad iPhone photos and monstrous dust bunnies under the coffee table — is going to need a little more love now that we are feeling a market shift , seeing increased days on market and inventory is growing. .

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What is a Comparative Market Analysis, and What Does It Look Like?

HomeLight

We have incorporated exhaustive research and expert input from Carl Medford , a seller’s agent who ranks in the top 1% in the San Francisco Bay area, to explain what a CMA is and why it’s such an essential element in a seller’s strategy. What is a comparative market analysis (CMA)? How is a comparative market analysis put together?

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Brand Report: RE/MAX Releases February National Housing Data

RIS Media

“The shrinking inventory continued to fuel ongoing bidding wars, and our agents report some homes selling for well above listing price,” said Adam Contos, CEO of RE/MAX Holdings, Inc. “It’s a complicated, competitive market, with buyers having to act quickly and aggressively to get the home they want.