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“Back on the Market” . . . Why Exactly?!?

Putting a (Too) Good Face on Things?  It’s a fact of (real estate) life: sales fall through. Buyers change their minds. Inspection issues come up. Buyers can’t get financing** (the honest explanation at least 80% of the time). When any of those (or other) unhappy events occur, listing agents have the demoralizing task of switching...
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“Back on the Market” . . . Why Exactly?!?

Putting (Too) Good a Face on Things?  It’s a fact of (real estate) life: sales fall through. Buyers change their minds. Inspection issues come up. Buyers can’t get financing* (the honest explanation at least 80% of the time). When any of those (or other) unhappy events occur, listing agents have the demoralizing task of switching...
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Mid-January Bump in Housing Inventory: Return of the TNAS’s*

New Listing — Or Is It?? Would-be home Sellers who pulled their listing over the holidays typically wait for two things:  1) for the post-holiday period to pass, usually a few weeks into the New Year; and 2) mild weather (defined as mid-teen’s or higher in Minnesota in January). The last few days qualify, which...
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“Back on the Market” . . . Why Exactly?!?

Putting (Too) Good a Face on Things?  It’s a fact of (real estate) life:  sales fall through. Buyers change their minds. Inspection issues come up. Buyers can’t get financing* (the honest explanation at least 80% of the time). When any of those (or other) unhappy events occur, listing agents have the demoralizing task of switching...
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Back on the Market — at a Higher Price?!?

Sellers Who Are Still Too Far Ahead of the Market With something like 2,000 Twin Cities homes temporarily off the market over the holidays, it’s a good bet that 1,500 or so homes will come back on the market the next few weeks. Or are already back on the market. Of those re-listed homes, how...
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Getting a 2nd Chance to Make a 1st Impression

How Long After the Holidays to Re-List? With the holidays now past, many would-be home sellers whose properties have been off the market since Thanksgiving (or thereabouts) are asking their Realtors whether it’s time to go back on. The case for doing it this week:  it’s easier to stand out from the crowd during an otherwise slow...
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