I slightly disagree with waiting for the seller to announce a cut. A reduction alerts every buyer watching the listing, whereas a reasoned offer before that can test motivation without creating the same competition. The important part is having close completed comparisons from the same small...
The handoff test could be very concrete: create one sample property, import the listing, add a commute result, upload two revisions of a renovation document, then reassign it. Ask the recipient to identify the current document and next action without verbal guidance. Also change one field and...
The regional point deserves emphasis. “Austin is falling” or “the US market is rising” is too broad to settle the price of one detached home. Look at a meaningful sample of genuinely comparable closed transactions, how recently they sold and how many sales there actually were. Sparse data should...