{"id":42486,"date":"2025-07-06T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42486\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:27:10","slug":"tight-market-prompts-new-rules-for-homebuyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42486\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight Market Prompts New Rules for Homebuyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bill-Stirling.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Tight Market Prompts New Rules for Homebuyers\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Association of Realtors CEO Bill Stirling; File photo)<\/p>\n<p>The Realtors\u2019 Association says a tight metro-area market means that many homebuyers are changing their\u00a0strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Bill Stirling says the trend began during the pandemic \u2013\u00a0when the market was especially tight and\u00a0a lot of properties were selling within a day, before many buyers even had an\u00a0opportunity to have a look.<\/p>\n<p>He says a problem developed at that time and changes were made to address it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA seller would say\u2026I\u2019m going to look at offers in two or three days, and along comes somebody with a bully offer and suddenly the property is gone.\u00a0\u00a0So we put in place a process last year to help structure that presentation of offers. So it takes the pressure off of buyers so they know that they have two or three days in which to see a property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That allows potential buyers several days to put in a bid.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, buyers are so anxious to secure a property, they\u2019re foregoing home inspections.\u00a0 Stirling says they always encourage buyers to get a home inspection.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cwhether you make the sale conditional on the home inspection results or not\u2026talk to your realtor, get advice. It depends on the property you\u2019re buying. But again, a homeowner should still get a home inspection. Even if they do it after the sale, at least then they know what they bought, and they\u2019ve got a list of\u2026weekend projects that they can work on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Association of Realtors CEO Bill Stirling; File photo) The Realtors\u2019 Association says a tight metro-area market means&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,135,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-42486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-markets","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114804401327017365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}