{"id":2262,"date":"2009-03-23T06:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2009-03-23T06:21:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:21:40","slug":"multiple-offer-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/multiple-offer-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Offer Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/None\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/thelyceum_hartford.jpg\" alt=\"The Lyceum in Hartford's Frog Hollow neighborhood\" align=right hspace='6' class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2265\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not exactly sure what is going on this spring, but my buyer clients seem to be multiple-offer magnets.  And the properties we&#8217;re looking at aren&#8217;t necessarily hot, new listings.  Some of the homes have been on the market for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>One of the trends that I&#8217;m noticing with multiple offer situations in a &#8220;buyers market&#8221; is the fact that the properties aren&#8217;t necessarily going at or over asking price, even though there are multiple people interested at the same time.  Caution still seems to be outweighing the &#8220;gotta have it&#8221; mentality that ruled a few years ago.  If you&#8217;re a strong buyer (good down payment, reasonable closing time, and don&#8217;t need to sell), you may find yourself winning a multiple offer situation without a full price offer.<\/p>\n<p>Just a sign of how things have changed over the past year or so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not exactly sure what is going on this spring, but my buyer clients seem to be multiple-offer magnets. And the properties we&#8217;re looking at aren&#8217;t necessarily hot, new listings. Some of the homes have been on the market for quite some time. One of the trends that I&#8217;m noticing with multiple offer situations in a &#8220;buyers market&#8221; is the fact that the properties aren&#8217;t necessarily going at or over asking price, even though there<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/multiple-offer-madness\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1568,1591],"tags":[1826,2538,2712],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying","category-selling","tag-buyers-market","tag-multiple-offers","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}