Where Have all The Buyers Gone?

Where have all the buyers Gone? Many homeowners who are trying to sell their homes have been asking that. The simple answer is that these homeowners need to look in the mirror. That is because every seller is waiting for his or her transformation into a buyer.

The typical scenario is that a seller will put their home on the market and wait for offers to come in. However, in many cases the offers are not coming in due to the current market’s “adjustment”. And this has lead to a surplus of homes for sale and a scarcity of buyers. That is what happens in a slowdown; a logjam of buyers trapped in their current homes as sellers.

As the home seller, if you are going to “wait until the right buyer comes along”, or “wait for the market to catch up to your asking price”, then you could be waiting for a long time.

Unfortunately, many sellers will make the mistake of holding out for an unrealistic price well beyond the point that it makes economic sense to do so. These sellers will be missing the opportunity to get a good deal on their next home. By waiting (and hoping) for the market to change in their favor, these sellers are forgoing the benefits of the current buyers’ market.

You can’t have the best of both worlds. If you are holding out for an unrealistic sales price, then you are predicting that we will find ourselves in a sellers’ market-or at least trending in that direction. And we can’t be in both a buyers’ market & a sellers’ market at the same time.

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