“A woman has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit in Queens after she says a realtor accidentally sent her a text message stating, "Ugh…they are Black," as she and her fiancé arrived to view a rental property in Flushing. CBS News New York's Carolyn Gusoff reports.” Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/ugh-they-are-black-realtors-alleged-text-sparks-queens-discrimination-lawsuit/ submitted by /u/Strict_Snow1996 [link] [comments] source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1xdg3uy/ugh_they_are_black_realtors_alleged_text_sparks/

Mods, since you removed my last post. Here is one I hand-typed myself. Let me know if this is okay. I could also type it up on a type writer or hand write it with a pen and paper and re-post that. Looking for a sanity check from anyone who’s bought or sold rural-ish property, especially in the Midwest. My wife and I are trying to buy a 5 acre place in the far west Chicago burbs. 1999 cape cod, about 2500 sq ft of actual living space, though it’s been marketed at 3500 because they count a detached building that was permitted as a “game room” back in 2003 and later got a kitchen stuck in it. Barn, chickens, a hoop greenhouse that’s basically a skeleton now. Interior is all original 1999. Pet damage, original water heater, upstairs AC is dead. Roof and main furnace/AC are new though (2024/2025). It first listed in Aug 2024 at $830k. It’s been listed 5 separate times since then and is now FSBO at $774,900. Two contracts fell apart. The seller says both were financing but I’d bet money i...

My Husband (32M) and I (31F) are in the very early stages of house hunting for the second time in our relationship. We live in Perth Western Australia. Our first property was inherited so we didn't have much say, but this one will be something we choose for ourselves. Our issue is that we disagree on a lot of the details. My Criteria Mid Century Modern A Frame with a modest garden (husband likes a mid century home, hates gardening. Feels nervous about an older house needing lots of updates/repairs and fears our cats will destroy any beautiful hardwood floors they come across) Colonial Cottage in a historic suburb (non-starter, husband does not like the realities of living in a house older than our grandparents, and isn't a fan of the suburbs I have in mind) Modern open plan townhouse in an inner city suburb (it could work for both of us except for the small kitchen as we both cook and have already outgrown our current kitchen) Owner build open plan home incorporating elem...

Home Selling Success Story: Under Contract in 3 Days I figured I'd share a home-selling success story, especially with all the doom and gloom surrounding the housing market lately. I think my wife and I might have had one of the easiest home sales I've ever heard of. My wife and I needed to relocate from Texas to Pennsylvania for family reasons. Around this time last year, we decided we'd put our house on the market during the summer of 2026 and see what happened. We hired a realtor, went over the numbers, looked at comparable homes, and ultimately settled on a listing price of $300,000. We originally purchased the house for $220,000 about eight years earlier. For some context, when we bought our house, most homes in our neighborhood were selling for somewhere between $200k and $300k. At the height of the pandemic housing craziness, those same homes were being valued at $400k to $500k. We knew those prices weren't realistic anymore, and we weren't interested in ...

I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. I Live on the lower Oregon coast. Half locals, half retirees, half tourists and half golfers. Just from walking around and observing, it seems to me that when a retiree dies, the adult children are usually 500 miles away and suddenly having to deal with cleaning out and selling a 500k house. Kids think they are going to get 500k free money out of the house! Dream time. But then a Realtor or two comes in, as does an appraiser. Or two. Suddenly kids are informed of work that should be done, but probably only requiring 50 or 100k. Or so. Kids think, ok, we will still get 400k free money, so they approve it. 400k! Then the construction guys come in, and they find some leaks, roof work, flooring that should be replaced as well. Only 50k more. Probably. Probably, but we don't know until we start pulling stuff up. You can see where this is going. Suddenly all that free money starts dissipating, and starts feeding local industry instead. ...

I am in contract for a house (for like the 4th time) and I noticed that the neighbors were a little rowdy, living in a trailer cursing at their barking dog. As if that weren't enough of a problem, I got curious and checked the s*x offender list and lo and behold that property is home to a s*x offender, with the crimes of "LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH A CHILD UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE" and "ORAL COPULATION BY FORCE OR FEAR" from 25 years ago. Based on the website DOB he's about 50 years old now. I feel crazy even typing this because I can only lean toward absolutely pulling out of this contract but wanted to see if anyone had any wise thoughts on this matter before I do. I've seen other posts concerned about offenders in the nighborhood, but this is literally next door within eyesight. And we plan to raise kids in our new home so I feel sick to my stomach just imagining living there. submitted by /u/yubugger [link] [comments] source h...

We will be selling our house soon and wondering if including all the furniture in house will attract more buyers. All the furniture is in excellent condition and about 8 pieces are antiques since they fit well in the Victorian old house. We are more than capable of taking every piece out of the house. Just wondering if buyer might be more inclined to put an offer on this house before another similar house with no furny included. Pieces include: Dining room: table/buffet/china cabinet antique 1920s art deco set Living room: antique marble coffee table, TV stand, electric fireplace sofas Bedrooms: beds, dressers, 1 antique vanity set Office: sofa, coffee table, desk Kitchen: antique 1920s table. Hallways: 2 victorian side tables and corner shelf unit, 3 antique brass guilded and Eastlake mirrors Also, if we decide to include furniture we are willing to give buyer the option to have us remove them all or they keep whatever they like. Would that be a good choice? We simply want to...

Why are the Zestimate and Redfin Estimate for every single house that gets sold in my local market consistently above the sale price? And not by a small margin, but consistently anywhere from 5-15%! You'd think that when a house closes at a certain price, the pricing models would automatically readjust to account for the new sale. But it feels like Zillow and Redfin are artificially inflating their estimates to keep prices elevated. Redfin is also consistently worse than Zillow. The problem is, home sellers see these inflated estimates and think that this is what their homes are worth. So their overpriced houses end up sitting for weeks or months and they refuse to drop the price to match recent comps. submitted by /u/NotTaken2022 [link] [comments] source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1xbsvga/are_zestimate_and_redfin_estimates_artificially/

Mortgage rates edged down, but mortgage applications continued to decline. Purchase applications fell 7% in the latest week and were down 18% from a year earlier. Are high home prices and borrowing costs still keeping buyers on the sidelines, or are people waiting for rates to fall further? Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/mortgage-rates-drop-for-the-first-time-in-2-months-but-demand-falls.html submitted by /u/foodie_2598 [link] [comments] source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1xbplvh/mortgage_rates_drop_for_the_first_time_in_two/