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...
There is one number in the local market reports that almost nobody outside the business notices, and it might be the most useful one for anyone about to write an offer or set a price. Across the Miami Valley, homes have been selling at an average of 100 percent of list price, month after month, for a long stretch now. Clients ask Irongate Inc., REALTORS® agents whether they should come in unde...
You open the inspection email and there they are, forty pages of photographs with red circles around parts of a house you did not know had names. If that made your stomach drop, you are reacting the way most buyers do. Buyers working with Irongate Inc., REALTORS® get the same report and the same jolt, and then we sit down together and translate it. An inspection report is not a verdict on the...
If you are thinking about selling your home in the Miami Valley, you have probably already started doing the math in your head. What did you pay? What have you put into it? What do you need to walk away with? Those are natural questions, and they matter to you personally. But they are not what determines your list price, and unders...
