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(VA) Did my agent negotiate badly?

Bought a new build townhouse a week ago. I was happy that my agent got $5k off the listing price because negotiating anything with a new build seemed rare.

However, I just saw that the townhouse literally right next door that was priced higher got $17k off the listing price! It was listed at $1M and sold for $983k, while my home listed at $990k and sold for $985k.

I know there's nothing that can be done now, but I'm astounded that my neighbor+agent was able to get such a discount. My agent said that it was very difficult to get $5k and that was the most the builder could have offered. Seeing other homes in the neighborhood's listing and sold price, the most I saw was also $5k.

Did my agent do a bad job then? I took his word that it was the most that could be done and didn't really ask for another round of negotiation. Maybe I seemed too eager to the builder.

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