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Home pricing rules: don’t go if you don’t know

Housing Wire

Secret #2 Sometimes, especially in a low-inventory market, your potential seller client may know about comparable sales you didn’t capture. Private sales, for sale by owner and other sales not found in your MLS could be really good comparable homes, so ask good questions and don’t just assume your seller is overpriced.

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Home pricing rules: Don’t go if you don’t know

Real Trends

Secret #2 Sometimes, especially in a low-inventory market, your potential seller client may know about comparable sales you didn’t capture. Private sales, for sale by owner and other sales not found in your MLS could be really good comparable homes, so ask good questions and don’t just assume your seller is overpriced.

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Contingent vs. Pending: Real Estate Lingo Explained

RIS Media

” There are other statuses in the MLS listings like “Pending,” “Contingent,” “Coming Soon” and “Expired.” ” What do they mean and how will they affect your home sale? Two important statuses in the MLS are “Contingent” and “Pending.”

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How Smart Investors Decipher & Respond to Real Estate Market Cycles

The Close

Therefore, in this article we will explore common real estate market cycles and the indicators you can look for to better understand which market stage your area is in. 8 Stages of Real Estate Market Cycles. While I generally agree with this, I break market cycles down into eight stages to make them easier to follow.

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Introducing Decentre Property Exchange

Notorious ROB

I had kept the initiative relatively quiet because it’s early stages, but the court kind of forced my hand. I’ll try very hard not to make this a total sales pitch and shameless plug, but… I make no guarantees on that front. It turns out that you cannot build an open auction platform on top of the traditional MLS.

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Trying to sell your listings faster? Ask yourself these 15 questions

Real Trends

Perhaps it has poor or no staging. The goal is for the listing to show like a new construction model home. Tip: Write in your MLS descriptions and agent-to-agent comments that your seller would consider a home sale or closing contingency and will allow inspections. Don’t make these mistakes: 1.

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Why an Economic Downturn Represents the Best Time to Invest in Real Estate

The Close

According to the National Association of Realtors’ latest existing-home sales data , sales are down 23.2% This retail market is reflective of a sale between a seller who is not in financial or personal distress and a buyer who is not being influenced to buy due to their circumstances. and prices are down 1.7%

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