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On the Market One Year

  What would be a good starting offer on a home that has been on the market for more than one year, people have relocated, and several homes are for sale in community? The asking price is 330,000.00.
 
 

I don't know what the place is worth, but we do know it's not worth $330,000.  If it were, someone would have come forward and offered that much -- that's the definition of market value:  what someone will pay.

Can you find data on what has sold recently, prices, and how it compares with this property?  That's always a good guide.  Otherwise, my offhand advice is to stay over $300,000, wherever you do start negotiating.  Anything less will be a shock to this seller.

 

    Edith
Originally published on June 22, 2007
 
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