Redfin Publishes Thousands of Real-Time Insights on What It Takes to Win A Bidding War
Redfin just released Offer Insights, which are real-time statistics and notes from Redfin agents about thousands of offers submitted on behalf of our clients. For every neighborhood we serve, our goal is to give you an intimate view of how every deal went down. Read More
We’ve been talking a big game about bidding wars this season, telling you that they’re rampant in places like the Bay Area, Seattle and DC, and sharing the tricks of the trade so you know what it takes to win them. But which homes are actually inciting these bidding wars and what’s it like to… Read More
Guest post by Greg Whelan, Redfin Agent serving Chicago’s Near North Side Deciding It Was Time to Buy After helping more than two hundred people buy and sell homes during my last decade as a real estate professional, I decided last spring that it was time to become a homeowner myself. I had been quite… Read More
Recent MBA grad, Mark Trang, spent weeks searching for a place in San Francisco to call home and found that the housing, like most things in the city, was terribly old or 21st century new. After an unsuccessful bid on an older property he decided to make an offer on one of the gleaming new… Read More
At lunch with Cynthia and a local real estate baron, we heard about a new tactic for getting a deal on a property. Rather than offering a lower price, ask the seller to handle closing costs, which can run up to $10,000 or more. Builders with multiple units prefer this approach because they avoid recording… Read More
We received another fantastic entry for our War Stories feature this week. This one is from Redfin commited user and longtime booster Peter C. He and his wife were making a big move to the East Coast in 1999 and came up with a creative trade that sealed the deal. Here it is, in his… Read More
We continue to get great responses from our call for real estate war stories. The following, from Betsy, of West Seattle certainly ranks as the strangest one that we’ve received. While it might be strange, its certainly interesting, and Betsy makes an excellent point about how a good connection with the seller can sometimes be… Read More
We’ve received some great responses from the call we put out last month for real estate offer war stories. One of the first to come in was from Sue M. She originally moved to Seattle as part of a corporate relocation package and, during one of her house hunting visits, found a house that she… Read More
The clever, under-stated Clay Nielsen was the first to answer Redfin’s call for “war stories,” tales of intrigue and derring-do to give Redfin shoppers an angle on winning deals. This one is *good*. Here’s Clay story, in his own words: In May of 2005, my wife and I decided it was time to start looking… Read More