For your current home, how long was your house search

[Deleted]

before you purchased?

[janegold]

About 6 months.

[jgb]

< 2 months

[lucky513]

a few years no joke

I'm glad we waited

[Deleted]

One month for our home we purchased. Two weeks for our apartment.

[Deleted]

A little under 2 months. We close on the 25th. Offer to closing is taking longer than the whole search.

[papie]

A month and a half. We saw 15 houses. It was the last one we saw and knew right away. We put an offer first thing the next morning after our evening visit,

[Deleted]

2 years

[starbuck]

20 minutes. I'm not even kidding. It was his grandma's house. Allll in the family. I'm still bitter I didn't get to house shop lol

[fuckyourcouch]

Probably 3-4 months.

[cereal K]

I guess two years from deciding to buy a new place and finding this one. But really, we took loooong breaks between actually looking and waiting for the old house to sell. I would say, once we got serious about looking, it was about a week. We saw five older homes on a Friday, then that weekend H wanted to look at new construction. This was an almost completed inventory home. We wrote an offer the next weekend.

[cbwm1]

A month? We had been doing a lot of searching online and had a limited budget, so we didn't have a ton of choices.

[Deleted]

3 months.

We close tomorrow.

Wheeeee!

[birdistheword]

One day.

ETA: I guess if you count looking online, it was a couple weeks. But we put in an offer the first day we actually went out looking at houses with our realtor.

[speckledfrog]

5 days. We relocated and did a whirlwind house hunting trip. I don't recommend it, it was insane.

[Deleted]

25 days for our primary home. 2 days for our vacation house. We were ready after 2 days on the primary but lost a bidding war and had to wait for another similar house to become available in our target neighborhood. I am pretty sure I had bought and sold three houses in the time it took you to settle on one. I think we are house buying opposites.

[Deleted]

25 days for our primary home. 2 days for our vacation house. We were ready after 2 days on the primary but lost a bidding war and had to wait for another similar house to become available in our target neighborhood. I am pretty sure I had bought and sold three houses in the time it took you to settle on one. I think we are house buying opposites.

[missanne]

2 months. We probably looked at 25 houses. We put an offer on ours the day we saw it.

[starlily]

3 months of hardcore searching - 10-15 open houses minimum each weekend & offers sight unseen on some places.

The market at our price point was crazy at the time we looked & we kept losing out to cash buyers and investors. So we increased our budget and bought new construction because we got tired of the frustration.

[TrickyBob]

4 months.

[KKD]

About a year.

Our first house only took a month or two. We were pickier this time around.

[VeryViolet]

About two years but we took a break of about 8 months in the middle of that and then waited on a crazy short sale that never happened.

[Deleted]

One month. We only looked at two places.

[Dezi]

We looked online but we bought the first house that we physically looked at. We had a unique situation though and the first house we looked at was a rare find and fit the bill.

[lulu13]

We waited for our house until the lot size came up that we wanted. Bigger lots are scarce around here so you have to be patient. We wanted an old house on a big lot with plenty of room for expansion/improvement. I was looking for about 6 months, which was fine because we were comfortable in the house we were in at the time, and when this one finally came up we made sure we got it. Normally contractors bid on our type of house so we were dealing with a different type of competitor. We lost out on 3 homes before the one we got but I am happy we ended up where we did. I did not want to buy a house that was already updated/remodeled. I've always wanted to design my own house from top to bottom.

[cst2cst]

Every weekend for 3 months. We made 4 offers, were outbid on 1, withdrew from a bidding war during Thanksgiving dinner, backed out after a truly spectacularly terrible inspection, and then won a bidding war (waived appraisal contingency) to get our house.

[sonrisa]

Forever. But we were looking as the market imploded so the pickings were really weird. Many of the listings had some major problem going on and that is why sellers were willing to part with them - half completed renovations, burnt out portions, whatever. The other half were still asking top of the market prices despite the obvious housing market crash so those listings would sit for months or years. The few good listings went immediately in bidding wars. The good side was that better and better neighborhoods came into our price range. Our current house was on the market because the owner had dementia and the kids needed to sell to pay for her nursing home.

[youbetcha]

Like looked online? 2 or 3 months.

Going to actual houses? One day. 

[dexteroni]

Two days. We saw a bunch of houses we didn't like with our stupid realtor, then went to open houses on our own the next day and found it. We still saw the rest of the houses on our list, but came back to this one.

Our next house, which we hope to be in by some time next year, will take a lot longer. We'll be in a higher price range, so we'll have to be more careful. Plus this house was supposed to be a 5-year house (10 years ago, thank you real estate market crapfest) but our next house will be forevah, so our list of criteria is longer.

[kristie]

It was the second house we actually saw. We had been "looking" online for forever but it never felt like the right time to buy. We knew we wanted a house with a pool and there weren't many decent options. Our realtor told us about this one and we saw it the day before it was listed and were under contract the next day. There were people still calling on closing day hoping our deal fell through. So.... About a week of actually looking, but it was quick.