If you have been watching listings in Beavercreek or Kettering this fall, you may have noticed something that feels a little contradictory. Fewer homes sold in September than a year ago, yet prices kept climbing. If you are a buyer getting ready to write an offer, that combination raises a fair question about how aggressive you need to be. At Irongate Inc., REALTORS®, we follow the monthly num...
The leaves are mostly down in Kettering and Centerville, the sun sets before most people leave work, and the buyers touring homes right now are not casual browsers. If your Miami Valley home is on the market this November, or you plan to list before the year ends, the first few minutes of every showing matter more than they did in June. At Irongate Inc., REALTORS®, our agents walk through home...
October is the honest month around here. The leaves come off, the light changes angle, the first real rain of the season runs through everybody's yard, and suddenly you can see things about a street that were invisible in July. Buyers touring homes this time of year with an Irongate Inc., REALTORS® agent get a look at the Miami Valley that summer buyers do not get, and most of them do not real...
The first cool morning always arrives sooner than you expect around here. One week you are running the air conditioning in Centerville, and the next you are looking for a jacket before you walk out to the car. That shift is your cue, because the work you do to a Miami Valley home in September and October is worth far more than the same work done in January. Homeowners who call Irongate Inc., RE...
Every year around Labor Day, a quiet assumption settles over the Miami Valley: the real estate season is over, see you in spring. And every year, the buyers and sellers who ignore that assumption tend to come out ahead. At Irongate Inc., REALTORS®, some of the best-fit transactions our agents see close between September and November, when the market thins out but does not shut down. With inven...
