Buying and Selling a Home – at the Same Time – in a Buyers’ Market By Joe Szabo, Scottsdale Real Estate Team

By Joe Szabo, Scottsdale Real Estate Team Buying a home can be a nerve-wracking experience, so can selling a home. Try to take on both tasks at the same time and you’re doubling the stress. Good news: Doing some advance planning can help reduce your number of sleepless nights.

What is a buyers’ market?

Real estate is a business based on supply and demand. If there are only a few houses for sale, buyers have to compete for those available homes, making it a sellers’ market. When hundreds of homes are on the market, house hunters find themselves in stronger bargaining positions relative to sellers, making it a buyers’ market. According to an analysis published by Zillow, the nation’s top five buyers’ metro area markets are:

• Cleveland
• Philadelphia
• Tampa
• Chicago
• Pittsburgh

In the Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor metro area, for example, the average listing spent 119 days on the market, and 28 percent of those properties had experienced a recent price cut, according to the Zillow analysis. Compare that to San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, the nation’s top sellers’ market, where properties spent an average of 44 days on the market and the list price had been lowered on just 14 percent of those homes. Understanding your local housing market can help you determine how best to handle your own buy-and-sell scenario. “Buying and selling at the same time is something we help people do all the time,” said Leslie Ebersole, a real estate agent based in Chicago’s western suburbs. “The most important thing for people to realize is that, just like they’re out looking for the best home at the best value, people are looking at their home with the same lens. You have to realistically participate in the market.”

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