10 tips to sell your house during cold weather
The market has tilted severely toward sellers. But if you want to get the best price and the quickest deal, there are still a lot of things you need to do to make an off-season listing stand out.
The market has tilted severely toward sellers. But if you want to get the best price and the quickest deal, there are still a lot of things you need to do to make an off-season listing stand out.
Shaker, which offers a platform for real estate agents and clients to communicate with each other, was launched last year by Indianapolis venture studio High Alpha.
Sales of existing homes in central Indiana fell for the third time in four months in October amid skyrocketing prices and tight inventories.
That’s nearly three times the acreage purchased in the two decades prior, and a major expansion for a municipal parks agency with no land-acquisition budget.
Sales of single-family homes were back on the rise in the area in November, ending a two-month streak of declining purchases despite rising prices and tight inventories.
Sales of existing single-family homes in central Indiana slowed in December, but 2021 was a solid year for the residential real estate market despite high prices and shrinking inventories.
The median price for homes sold in the area last month was up 13.6%, to $253,245, compared with $223,000 in February 2021.
Sales have been on the downturn in typical residential hotbeds Hamilton, Johnson and Marion counties, but have been on the rise in Madison, Hancock and Morgan counties.
The hot sellers’ market continues here in Indiana, but the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike announcement last week may start to turn the tide toward a more stabilized real estate environment. Robin Koza and her husband, Robert, sold their Westfield home last August in a matter of hours. “It was during the peak of the sellers’ […]
The active inventory of for-sale homes rose 47% from the previous month in central Indiana. Higher inventories could help bring down prices in coming months.
Median prices of homes sold in central Indiana ticked down slightly from June to July, but are still significantly higher than they were a year ago.
Closed sales in the 16-county central Indiana area drooped from 3,883 in August 2021 to 3,461 last month—a year-over-year decrease of 10.9%, according to the latest data from the MIBOR Realtor Association.
In Marion County—the most active market in central Indiana—closed sales of existing homes in September were down 16.1% on a year-over-year basis.
The cold months pretty much always herald a drop in residential real estate sales. It just isn’t a great time to schlep around looking at houses. This season, however, is expected to bring a lower dip than in recent years.
Sales have now fallen on a year-over-year basis for the past 10 months and have seen double-digit percentage decreases for five straight months.
Consumers rate current home-buying conditions as the worst since the early 1980s, according to a survey by the University of Michigan.
Sales of existing homes in the area have now fallen on a year-over-year basis for the past 11 months and have seen double-digit percentage decreases for six straight months.
Despite the decline in sales, median prices for homes sold in the 16-county area rose 11% in January on a year-over-year basis, according to the latest monthly data from the MIBOR Realtor Association.
Residential real estate sales in the 16-county area have fallen on a year-over-year basis for the past 13 months and have seen double-digit percentage decreases for eight straight months.
While the volume of sales has fallen off considerably since last year’s red-hot market, the number of days a house stays on the market has dropped in recent weeks—a development that many see as a sign of the market stabilizing.