Paying referral fees is a standard practice in the realtor business. Are you thinking of moving to a new town and need an introduction to a realtor there? Your agent here will track one down for you, and that agent will pay them a referral fee, which used to be 20%...
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At the beginning of 2023, the Zillow 1-year forecast for San Diego home values was -0.8%. In May, their expected 1-year appreciation rate in our local areas was around +3%. Now they are guessing it will be around 5%….which might cause more sellers to wait longer! SE...
At the beginning of 2023, the Zillow 1-year forecast for San Diego home values was -0.8%. In May, their expected 1-year appreciation rate in our local areas was around +3%. Now they are guessing it will be around 4%....which might cause more sellers to wait longer! SE...
Zillow, Goldman Sachs, and every economist thought the 2023 market would be all negative. But now.... Goldman Sachs originally forecasted home prices to fall by double digits. However, they have released a report titled - “As interest rates climb, the global housing...
We received three offers on our new listing, and all were around $2,000,000....well under the list price. Once you get over $2,000,000, the buyers are putting up some fight. If the only strategy is to take the best offer - by far the most popular realtor strategy -...
Here are the Zillow estimates of appreciation over the next year - all are back into positive territory! If they are reading it correctly, it means they will have more increases coming over the next couple of months before the appreciation rate relaxes during the...
Here's a tip about the automated valuations. We know that Zillow and Redfin automatically adjust their estimates to within a couple of bucks of the list price once a home goes on the open market, making their estimates worthless to the reader. But Realtor.com doesn't....
We know that the perception is more important than the reality, especially for potential sellers. If they see some media coverage that is slightly positive, maybe more will come to market this year, instead of waiting for some vague unknown day in the future when the...
It looks like Zillow is sticking with their relatively flat forecasts for our local areas. It's probably realistic if appreciation goes like it did in 2022 - everything gained in the spring selling season is given back in the off-season. Note how the 'typical home...
