In a sellers’ market, some homeowners might be tempted to try to sell their house on their own (known as For Sale By Owner, or FSBO) instead of working with a trusted real estate professional. When the inventory of homes for sale is as low as it is today, buyers are eager to snatch up virtually any house that comes to market. This makes it even more tempting to FSBO. As a result, some sellers think selling their house will be a breeze and see today’s market as an opportunity to FSBO. Let’s unpack why that’s a big mistake and may actually cost you more in the long run.

According to the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers published by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), 41% of homeowners who tried to sell their house as a FSBO did so to avoid…

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 Hey, it's Andy with The Mandel Team at RE/MAX and we're here to bring you your April 2021 housing market update. As always, for the purposes of these videos we're going to be talking about single family homes only in Boca, Parkland and Coral Springs. Those are the areas where our team does the predominant amount of our business. We're not going to be talking about any country clubs or any 55 and over communities. Those are a separate market entirely.

So, you have to remember for these next two months the stats are going to be a little bit skewed. On March 16th of 2020 was when the economy down here shut down, everyone was forced to stay in, everything was basically shut down. So some of these stats are going to be a little bit skewed because we…

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