Listing Price versus what you Paid - POLL

OK - poll of what your house was listed at, versus what you paid.

Thanks :)

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We offered 6% below, they countered with 5% and we wound up settling on ~3% LESS than asking.

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We paid 9% less then asking.

We bought our house from a contractor that bought it on foreclosure & redid it. He priced himself out WAY too high for the area. Before we put a bid on the house, it had dropped $100K. He finally realized he was too high & after some back & forth, he settled for the 9% less

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i paid $2500 more

that extra $500 over $2000 got us the deal

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Back in 2000, we paid 8% less than asking.

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this is so helpful being I'm in the market as well. Thanks!

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We had to pay $21k over the asking price for our house. It was crazy, even though it was a complete fixer-upper pple were bidding on it left and right!

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We paid asking....there was no way we would have gotten our house if we offered less. It was priced to sell. Oh well, We are happy.

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$25k less

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Summer 2005
$359k listing price
$369k Paid

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Well starting price on the house was 459,000 but when we looked at it they had just dropped it to 439,000 we paid 432,000 for the house.. so either way I think we got a deal.

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We gave asking price. It was priced low compared to the other homes in the area and we think even though we paid asking price, we got a good deal.

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summer 2004

asking price was 460,00
we paid 427,500

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Posted by SweetestOfPeas

Posted by danielleandscott

Summer 2005
$359k listing price
$369k Paid

you paid above asking?

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Posted by npbride

Posted by SweetestOfPeas

Posted by danielleandscott

Summer 2005
$359k listing price
$369k Paid

you paid above asking?

I think in 2005 that may have been somewhat common. We went to an open house in Commack and the house was in great codition. By the end of the day our agent said that the owners accepted an offer that was $20,000 ABOVE the listing price (I think the listing was $400,000).

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The house we're closing on next week originally was $449,000 - then they dropped the price to $434,000...we're paying $430,000.

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WE paid a whopping 5000 less then asking

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Yes we paid $10k over asking. It was very common during the summer of 05. Sellers were usually getting asking price or over asking price. If you wanted the house, that is what you had to do.

We saw the house b4 the open house. The real estate agent was going to have one open house and take all offers to the owner. It was an estate sale.

So we offered $10k over. And they got 12 other offers on the house. The realtor called me 2 days after the open house to tell me the seller accepted our offer.
Scott

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bumping for more answers!

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BUMP again... i'd like to see more answers too!

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Believe it or not, we paid asking...actually $100 over. That's what got us the deal. It was priced to move and we think we got a great deal.

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We did FSBO and we tried to get him to lower it $5,000 but he would not budge so we paid the asking.

I think it may be different out there now than it was last year...and I plan to underbid when I look again next year.

Re: Listing Price versus what you Paid - POLL

Price was dropped twice from an original asking price of 589K to 549K

We offered 519K but got back an additional 10K after inspection so we paid 509K

80K less than original asking price.

Summer of 05.