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There is a version of the housing market story that gets told over and over, and it goes like this: prices are high, rates are high, nothing is affordable, and the only people buying are the ones with cash. That version is not wrong, exactly. It is just incomplete.
In markets where new construction has been active, prices have pulled back. Markets that overheated fastest have cooled most noticeably. But those are the exceptions. Most markets are not working from excess; they are working from scarcity.
Brandie is a name you might hear from a lot of agents right now, because the buyers getting deals done tend to treat the purchase like a business transaction rather than an emotional event. That is not a personality trait. It is a preparation habit.
Your credit score affects your rate more directly than most buyers realize. Moving your score up by 40 points before you apply can be worth more than months of rate watching. If your score has room to improve, pull your reports, find the issues, and address them before you start shopping seriously.
The appraisal is the lender’s check, not yours. A low appraisal means the buyer has to make up the gap in cash, renegotiate, or cancel. Ask your agent how common appraisal gaps have been in your target price range and neighborhood.
Negotiation works best when it is quiet and well-prepared. Before you make an offer, find out whether the price has been reduced and by how much. A listing that has been relisted after a cancellation is a fundamentally different negotiation than one that just hit the market at an aggressive price.
For buyers with a real reason to be in a specific place for the foreseeable future, this market is more navigable than the headlines suggest. The homes that meet real criteria at a realistic price are still moving. They are moving to buyers who showed up prepared.
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