{"id":265535,"date":"2010-02-02T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/?p=17226"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:00:26","slug":"buyers-gain-more-negotiating-power-in-december-florida-northeast-buyers-still-bargaining-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/265535","title":{"rendered":"Buyers Gain More Negotiating Power in December; Florida, Northeast Buyers Still Bargaining the Most"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in 11 months, buyers gained some negotiation power in December. Homebuyers negotiated a median 2.7 percent, or $5,618, off the last listing price<\/a> of homes sold in December, up slightly from 2.6 percent or $5,538 in November. We calculate this by comparing the last listing price of individual homes and their final sale price.<\/p>\n

That’s still far less than buyers were negotiating off the listing price at this time last year. In December 2008, they bargained a median 4.5 percent, or $10,018, off the last listing price.<\/p>\n

Buyers in the Vero Beach, Fla.<\/a> metropolitan statistical area were again most firmly in the driver’s seat and negotiated a median 8.8 percent off the last listing price.<\/p>\n

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In many markets in California, sellers continued to be in the driver’s seat, and homes often sold for more than asking price. Many of these markets were among the hardest-hit in the country by the housing downturn, and foreclosure re-sales<\/a> make up more than 50 percent of all home sales in most of these.<\/p>\n

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Listing prices across the nation showed a slight increase December, with the median price of homes listed on Zillow at $209,900. That marks a 0.4 percent increase since November, but a decrease of 6.7 percent since December 2008.<\/p>\n

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For the first time in 11 months, buyers gained some negotiation power in December. Homebuyers negotiated a median 2.7 percent, or $5,618, off the last listing price of homes sold in December, up slightly from 2.6 percent or $5,538 in November. We calculate this by comparing the last listing price of individual homes and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}