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How to Sell My House Fast in Washington: Cash Offer Options

Facing the task of selling your house fast can seem daunting, particularly when every tick of the clock counts. If you’re a homeowner in Washington confronted with the urgency to sell your home, you have options. Whether you’re facing a financial deadline, a life transition, or the responsibility of an inherited or distressed property, a…

How Big Is an Acre? A Guide for Homebuyers

You’ve been searching online and found a few homes that meet your criteria of three bedrooms and two bathrooms. But as you read the listing descriptions that indicate one house is on 0.23 acres and another has a lot size of 8,730 square feet, you’re baffled by what these numbers actually represent. Your digital assistant…

How to Sell a House By Owner in North Carolina

When the time comes to move, some tenacious homeowners in North Carolina are eager to take over the reins of their home sale and figure out how to sell a house by owner. With millions of homes sold each year, a modest portion of sellers — about 7% in 2021 and 10% in 2022 —…

Lack of Listings Inventory Keeps U.S. Home Prices Propped Up

According to national property broker Redfin, new listings of homes for sale fell 22.4% nationwide from a year earlier during the four weeks ending April 23, 2023, one of the biggest declines since the start of the pandemic. Homeowners are staying put because they want to hang onto their low mortgage rates–this week’s average 30-year…

Life Sciences Office Vacancies on the Rise in Early 2023

According to a new report from CBRE, lab vacancies increased across the top 13 U.S. life sciences markets in the first quarter of 2023, providing relief for companies that had found little available space in recent years. Average vacancy of 6.7% in the first quarter marked an increase of 170 basis points from a year…

Q1 2023 – State of the Market Mega-Thread – Revenge of the Doomers!

Observations, rants, theories, speculation on future market movement, experiences, offer heartbreak, buyer fatigue, seller drama, mortgage drama, appraisal drama, anecdotes, new construction builder shenanigans, rate predictions, frustration with seller listing price strategy, crystal balls, and so on, that you may not feel warrant their own threads, but you want to get it off your chest.…

Selling my house where my neighbor wants “dibs”

I have a small house (around ~$100k value) that I’ll be selling shortly. My neighbor has asked me on numerous occasions to let him know if I will be selling because he wants to buy it for his daughter, etc. (Unrelated, but said neighbor has also helped out a lot by doing things like mowing…

January Market Stats For the Reno, Sparks Area