Making a Home Buying Offer: Steps to Success

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There is no hard and fast rule when it comes to making an offer for a home, and there is no guarantee that you will know what the minimum price the seller will agree to is. However, there are some ways to increase the chances of success when you are making an offer on a home. Let us examine the steps that lead to success as far as home buying is concerned.

Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)

A CMA or comparative market analysis is a common, dependable way of mathematically assessing the wroth of a house in comparison to other houses on the market with reference to aspects such as are, number of bathrooms and bedrooms and so on. So your realtor will compare the home you are considering with other properties that:

? Have about the same square foot are, and about the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms
? Are presently available for sale with an active status, in escrow with a pending status, or have been sold within the past half year
? Are near the home in question
He or she will then put down the details of each of the homes being compared (these are known as comps). Details will include the DOM or the days on market (meaning how long the property was available for sale) the sale price and the list price. Figures like the average sales price, price per square foot and high and low sales prices will also be included in your agent’s CMA report.

You need to consider sold price rather than list price:

Sold price and list price are quite different. Basically, a list price is the price set by the vendor that he or she hopes that the buyer will agree to, while sold price is the actual price that the property has gone for. Generally you will gain a lot of information from the details on active and pending properties, but these usually have only list price mentioned. Note that homes that are entered on MLS will only mention the sold price if they have closed escrow. So comps that have sold price mentioned are more useful when your realtor is preparing the CMA.

Adjusted average sales price

There are three fundamental ways to apply a CMA to your decision about a price for your new home. You start by removing the highest and lowest comps, as well as the ones with far better or far worse features than your property. Then check what the maximum and minimum prices are – this will give you an idea of the least and the most you can expect as a price for the property in question. The next thing to do is find out the average sales price of the comps. After this, you will need to make the average sale price for each comp higher or lower, based on the following aspects:

? The size of the unit
? The number of bedrooms and bathrooms
? Features and upgrades
? Location
? Time of sale

You really don’t have to worry about the details of making a CMA when you are formulating an offer for a home. Your real estate agent will do the CMA on your behalf and will also analyze and adjust the figures to get the information you need. However, it makes sense for you to understand how a CMA is made so that you can grasp the significance of the figures your real estate agent shows you.

Features in common between the property you are considering and the comps

Many online sites offer CMAs, but these tend to be rather inaccurate, and will not really be useful if the comps used there are not like the property you want to make an offer on.

A good CMA will have the effect of focusing your possible offer price in a particular range of practical prices. It also, with the adjusted average sales price, gives you a good idea of roughly what to offer for the property in question.