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November Home Sales Glassell Park/Mount Washington 90065
Here are all the single family home sales in Glassell Park/Mount Washington 90065 from November. The high sales price was $740,000 (compared to $786,000 in October), the low sales price was $156,600 (down slightly from $177,000 in October), and the median sales price was $387,500 (down from $403,000 in October).
Now I understand why some foreclosure agents (who typically deal with a lot of offers) are so difficult to get a response from when I submit an offer to them. I have a listing that we “event priced,” that is, we listed it at such a good deal for the neighborhood it’s in that lots of people made offers. We had initial offers that went 25% over asking, so we countered everyone back at that. A number of people dropped out with the attitude of “Was that a typo?” “How do you think you are going to get that?” and the like. But we did get a few that were up at that price, and the highest one was quite a bit over.
So why did it take us almost a month to get this home in escrow?
The highest offer was VA financing, which means no down payment, seller to pay 3% of the buyer’s closing costs. The real issue is that, because the house needs work, a VA appraiser could require a lot of repairs and the seller would have to fix them before the loan could be finally approved. The seller isn’t in a position to do repairs (a major reason why we priced it the way we did.) So this is kind of a “teaser” offer. When I asked the lender what could happen with the appraisal, he said it was 50/50 that they would require a lot of repairs. How much of a gambler is the seller?
The next highest offer was for cash. They accepted our terms, but didn’t read the offer well enough to see that they were supposed to counter us back with their best and final offer. We couldn’t reach them for several days and when we did, we were told that we should have emailed them. So why give us phone numbers? Why didn’t they tell us that? Then they said yes to our “best offer over” price verbally, but then they countered in writing at $15,000 less.
The next offer was the most reliable deal: cash, a good agent, a savvy buyer. But at this point it’s the third highest.
Which one would you take? Or would you keep waiting?
