Malibu Real Estate and Malibu Homes for Sale

While many areas around the country are experiencing a "buyer's market," you need to exercise caution when offering to purchase at below asking price.  Bargaining is indeed an art, and the last thing you want to do is to insult the sellers.

While some real estate markets are experiencing increasing listing times and decreasing sales, others are still doing well or even booming.  Regardless of which applies, how do you position yourself for a quick, full-price sale?  Even in slow markets, some houses sell quite quickly, and it's for the very same reasons that they would in a hot market.

New York Times 

January 28, 2008
E-Commerce Report

By BOB TEDESCHI

It was late October, and Redfin, an online real estate brokerage firm based in Seattle, had received just three months earlier a $12 million investment led by the marquee venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. In the interim, the mortgage industry melted down, foreclosures spiked and housing sales slowed to a crawl. Now, one of Redfin’s biggest markets, Los Angeles, was battling a series of wildfires and Redfin’s sales had stopped cold.
Redfin was not the only victim of bad timing.