But, What’s “Too Long?” Test your knowledge of today’s housing market, and respond to the following statement: “A for sale home sitting on the market for 60 days is already shopworn”: A. True. B. False. C. Impossible to tell without more info. Correct answer. “C.” The key “other info”: price and location (of course). “Houston,...Read More
Question #2: How Many Months Between October and March?* The answer to “how long should the listing be?” is easy: long enough to sell the house (duh!). But that just begs the underlying question: how long will that take? Practically, the listing contract needs to be long enough to properly prep the home for market...Read More
Key Statistics: Not Just Price Which statistics are most important for getting a handle on the housing market? Certainly, trailing price changes are important. But, there are various such indices, and the best known ones (like Case-Shiller) track entire metro areas, not individual municipalities (let alone neighborhoods). It’s well and good that the Twin Cities...Read More
