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Be Sure To Assess Value Versus Price When Making Your Offer

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Realty Affiliates

It seems like Buyers want to offer a certain percentage below the list price regardless of what the price is.  This is causing many of them to miss out on homes that they should be buying. 

The List Price is not a target to mark down from.  It must be analyzed for accuracy for the property being offered.  If it is 30% overpriced and you offer 20% below that you are still paying 10% too much.  If it iTeeter Totter road signs 10% under priced and you pay 1% over the list price you are still getting a great value. 

Be sure to assess Value versus Price.  You might be missing fantastic opportunities by a notion that you must offer below List Price.  Measure Value when determining your offering Price.  Success will be yours.

Christianne O'Malley
Dickson Realty - Reno, NV
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Jim - I completely agree wth you. I had an agent call me yesterday to say that they'd like to buy some REO's at 85% of market value. I thought that was funny considering that REO's in our area generally sell for 98% or more of the asking price. It just goes to show it's not just buyers but agents that need to spend a little time looking more in depth at the market, too, so they can write successful offers and not just kill trees.

Aug 13, 2009 05:02 AM
Marie-Denise Kratsios
Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty - Huntington, NY
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Jim, what a great way and succint way of explaining this.  Much more simpler to understand than the way I've explained it in the past.

Aug 13, 2009 06:01 AM