How Long Should Sellers Wait to Reduce Their Price? “If a tree falls in the forest in forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” –Philosophy riddle “If a Seller drops their price when the market’s slow, does anyone notice?” –Corollary, Ross Kaplan Not all “days on the market” are...Read More
That Would be *Five(!) Price Reductions (If You’re Counting) First, two caveats: 1) the home that goes with the rather brutal chart (above) — spanning over 2 years of market time — wasn’t my listing (I prepared it as part of my listing presentation for a home down the street); 2) it’s from a...Read More
December S&P/Case-Shiller: Minneapolis Down 18.5% The latest S&P/Case Shiller numbers (for December) are out, and to no one’s surprise, they’re dreadful: all of the nation’s 20 largest housing markets show decreases, from the merely bad (Dallas, Denver) to the shocking (Las Vegas, Phoenix). Minneapolis shows an 18.5% drop from a year earlier. Before you jump...Read More
