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...
Drive through the older sections of Oakwood or the tree-lined streets near Kettering's Fairmont neighborhood and you'll pass brick colonials and cape cods that have stood since the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. That housing stock is a big part of what gives these communities their character, and it's also why home inspections here tend to turn up a specific set of issues that buyers touring newer co...
Walk into an open house in Kettering or Beavercreek this fall and you'll notice something that wasn't happening much a year ago: sellers are willing to talk. Buyers touring homes along Far Hills Avenue or through Beavercreek's newer subdivisions are hearing agents mention closing-cost credits and rate buydowns almost as often as square footage and finished basements. At Irongate Inc., REALTORSÂ...
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...
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...