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Buyer Strategies in a Hot Market - Increase Your Chance for SUCCESS!
Strategies in a Hot Real Estate Market
 
Today is a very good day!  Yesterday we FINALLY got some happy buyers under contract on the purchase of a new home. 
 They had been frustrated for months, with homes in their price range being snapped up the minute they hit the market, and they were beginning to get desperate.  Homes to rent here are as difficult to find as a good home to buy in their price range.  

Their realistic fear of being
homeless in May was beginning to take hold.
 
The market statistics on the day we wrote the offer prove what we all know, it is an unbelievable seller's market, with 1.4 months of home inventory in the town and price range of their soon-to-be new home.  Six months is considered a balanced buyer/seller market.
Right now I have a long list of frustrated pre-approved buyers ready to pull the trigger TODAY if they could just find a house that meets their needs...
 
What strategies did we use to achieve
success with the odds stacked so heavily against us?
 
1. SPEED!
My partner husband saw the house pop up on the hot sheet and called our buyers, who are out of town.  He was the first agent through the door, doing ... more

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