{"id":903442,"date":"2026-06-30T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903442\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:34:18","slug":"how-todays-homebuyers-can-regain-negotiating-power-in-cooling-phoenix-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903442\/","title":{"rendered":"How today\u2019s homebuyers can regain negotiating power in cooling Phoenix market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 After a pandemic-fueled stretch of fierce competition and offers written under pressure, today\u2019s Valley real-estate market finally is allowing homebuyers more time, choice and room to negotiate.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix metro has entered what is among the most buyer-friendly markets of this millennium. Rather than the widespread foreclosures and short sales of the 2008 crash, this shift is being shaped by a slower pace that\u2019s causing inventory to build and listings to sit longer.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean every home is suddenly a bargain or sellers are out of luck, but the market has finally begun to favor practical, prepared buyers who act on the right opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 After a pandemic-fueled stretch of fierce competition and offers written under pressure, today\u2019s Valley real-estate market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":903443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[35386,365769,365767,5229,5643,1587,365764,13990,47308,78282,7337,365770,365772,365771,1589,346847,365766,365765,365768,618,6620,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,365763],"class_list":["post-903442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-35386","tag-816-may-home-sales","tag-act-on-opportunities","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-buyer-friendly","tag-choice","tag-concessions","tag-homebuyers","tag-insurance","tag-interest-rate-buydowns","tag-lender-and-title-fees","tag-offset-prepaid-costs","tag-phoenix","tag-practical","tag-prepared-buyers","tag-room-to-negotiate","tag-sales-rise","tag-taxes","tag-time","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-valley-real-estate-market"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903442","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=903442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}