POLL: State of the home-buying market

[mrs.jacinthe]

There was a thing about this on our news last night and it got me thinking.  Soooo, humor me.

On zillow, put in your zip code, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms in your current house, and the $$ number that would be the *absolute* max for you (you don't have to post your parameters, FYI).  ETA: Don't add in pending listings.  Only homes that are active on the market/not pending.

How many houses come up?  
How many of those are condos?
PIP the best one?

[mrs.jacinthe]

How many?  3
How many are condos?  0
Best one:

3br, 2ba, 1283 sq ft, built in 1944, $229k

[thewop]

Um...there are no homes for sale in my zip code with the numbers I entered. If I drop $10K then one house pops up. No pics available, just a street map. Weird.

[emoflamingo]

Zero results. Houses in my neck of the woods sell fast. One we had to look at sold in 1 day.

[downtoearth]

Two different zip codes
Zip Code 1
Houses: 9
Condos: 2
No pic - the most expensive and likely nicest one didn't have any pics, just a street map.

Zip Code 2
Houses:7
Condos:0
Best Option -

[lightbulbsun]

SFH: 5
Condos: 0

4bd, 1.5 bath, 1,680sf - estate sale selling as-is. 

Boo, I can't get the picture to post. It's kind of cute, but probably needs a lot of work.  The other ones are in a neighborhood I would not live in.

[kaylie]

How many houses come up?  10
How many of those are condos? 0
PIP the best one?


Interestingly, it's not the most expensive one. Our house is better than anything listed.

[wawa]

Four results.
No condos.

Two split levels, one rather tiny rancher in a craptastic neighborhood, and one blah "colonial"
One of the splits is a short sale.

None of the photos want to load.

If i drop the number of bathrooms to what our house had when we bought it (2.5 vs. 3) there are 31 results, but nothing is grabbing me.

There are two houses for sale in my neighborhood that aren't showing up. Makes me wonder if they are under contract already. If so it'd be a quick sale on both, so that's cool.

[hbomdiggity]

Results: 4 (6 if I include condos)

Increases to 9 if I raise the price by $100k.

That said I ran for the first time in forever yesterday and I was almost surprised by the increased number of for sale signs - not necessary reflected above because my neighborhood has lots of homes that are double what we paid for ours.

[munkii]

36 results
3 condos
I'm not crazy about any of them. Now if I changed the zip to across the street, I'd probably get much better results.

[InBetweenDays]

The housing market here is a total seller's market right now. Our neighbor (a realtor) said in April her office had 20 sales and 12 of them went for over asking within a week of the listing.

SFH: 2
Condos: 0
Best one: I'm not really a fan of this house but it's better than the other one listed. It's a block from us so we went to look at the open house. It's a flip (complete gut and added a second floor) and it looks like a rushed job (they were bought it in November, did all the work, and it went back on the market last week).

[Marmee]

Zero for my max price which is $400k. (5bd, 3ba)

I got 1 fixer at $450k in a totally crappier area.

I started getting somewhat comparables at about $600k. We paid $380k 3 yrs ago for this house. So yeah we got a good deal & the market is crazy now.

[my4girls]

None. houses here fly off the market

[kermit]

Zillow says 5, but it's not very reliable, IME. I don't really like any of them. I'm glad I didn't wait to buy, I wouldn't be having any luck. Even halfway decent homes are selling fast around here.

[bunnymendelbaum]

2 "pre-foreclosures"
and one other house that looks crappy.




I upped the price a tad and got this one. But it is in a terrible neighborhood.

[april37]

SFH: 32
Condos: 0

This is the nicest (but it's not as nice as ours) and it's also more expensive than ours. It's listed on Zillow as FSBO. I sure am glad I'm not looking for a house now!

[Deleted]

SFH-12
Condo-0

This is the best in my opinion:


It is very close to our same sq. footage (onl/y 60 sq. ft. more) but it is $12k more than we paid for our new construction home. This house is 11 years old. It makes me love my house even more.

[kellikans]

45 total listings, 4 condos

2/1/$675k











most of the houses in our area are in pre-foreclosure, so no pics. this is a max of $725,000.

[Deleted]

Just since this afternoon when I originally looked it has gone from 12 down to 10. Yeah, I would say it is moving along pretty quickly.

[magdala]

I am on the edge of two zip codes. I tried both. 0 house come up with my characteristics which is odd because there are a number of houses for sale in my neighborhood. I didn't think that I had such and odd mix of characteristics.

[downtoearth]

May 2, 2013 20:47:39 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

2 "pre-foreclosures"
and one other house that looks crappy.




I upped the price a tad and got this one. But it is in a terrible neighborhood.

That second picture looks like a barn trying to take flight! LOL.

[sillygoosegirl]

4 houses
1 condo

However, a brief peek at the listings says we wouldn't have bothered to look at any of them in person when we were house hunting last year. One is on a postage stamp lot, and the others are all more than a mile from the public transit.

We feel very fortune to have purchased our house when we did. The market was just turning the corner from a buyers' market to a sellers' market when we put the offer in on our short sale. And, while it took 9 months to close, thank goodness it didn't fall through, because the options for sale in the past year have just sucked.

[simpsongal]

4 houses, no condos (had to drop search to 4 bedrooms). Only one we would have considered b/c split levels were deal breaker.

$790K - being advertised as a steal b/c it needs updating. This house is newer than ours
Because I'm lazy, here's a link: www.zillow.com/homedetails/10221-Martinhoe-Dr-Vienna-VA-22181/51768226_zpid/

Yay DC housing market...

[sunshine608]

16 houses- no condos- almost all are new construction, the remaining few are foreclosure or pre-foreclosure.

This is the best IMO, except according to the listing it requires cash, a FHA 203 or Conventional Renovation loan for a window leak issues

This one was good too:

[Deleted]

How many houses come up? 12
How many of those are condos? 4
PIP the best one? They are all pretty awful for one reason or another (looks, neighborhood, the fact that it's a condo). Glad we're not looking right now!

[vic1011]

How many houses come up? 3
How many of those are condos? 0
PIP the best one? Sadly:



Search Parameters: 3 bed 2+ bath, max price $250,000. This one came up for 139,999

[emjacobs]

How many houses come up? 18
How many of those are condos? 0

PIP the best one?

Honestly there aren't any that I would buy.

[IIOY]

My zillow app is worthless because I'm getting zero results when I know there are at least three homes in my neighborhood alone for sale.

[RoxMonster]

12 houses
No condos

Best one:

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[boiler717]

Zillow is giving me several results that aren't in the zip code I specified. There are 10 in our zip.

This is the best one I think. It's pretty similar to our house, although I prefer our location (much better elementary school and more convenient, and we have a much better lot). Our house was much less than this house (we signed with our builder in Dec 2011).

www.zillow.com/homedetails/2124782564_zpid