{"id":384412,"date":"2010-03-03T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/?p=18286"},"modified":"2010-03-03T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:00:37","slug":"buyers-shift-more-firmly-into-driver%e2%80%99s-seat-during-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384412","title":{"rendered":"Buyers Shift More Firmly Into Driver\u2019s Seat During January"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second month in a row, homebuyers across much of the country negotiated bigger discounts off the last listing price<\/a> of homes than they had the prior month.<\/p>\n

Buyers in the United States paid a final sale price of 2.8%, or $5,823, less than the last listing price during January, up from a median discount of 2.7% in December and 2.6% in November. December marked the first time in 11 months that buyers gained back negotiating power; for much of 2009, buyer discounts shrank as real estate markets across the country improved.<\/p>\n

One year ago, in January 2009, buyers negotiated a median 4.5%, or $10,178 off the last listing price of homes.<\/p>\n

The biggest discounts continued to be found in Florida<\/a>, although buyers in several New York City<\/a>-area metros also found relatively large discounts during January.<\/p>\n

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However, sellers continued to do well in several markets, with most buyers in places like El Centro<\/a> and Stockton<\/a>, Calif., paying more than the last listing price of homes sold in January.<\/p>\n

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Fewer for-sale homes experienced price reductions<\/a> in January than in December, with nearly one in five (19.8%) of homes for sale on Zillow experiencing at least one price cut as of the end of January.<\/p>\n

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For the second month in a row, homebuyers across much of the country negotiated bigger discounts off the last listing price of homes than they had the prior month. Buyers in the United States paid a final sale price of 2.8%, or $5,823, less than the last listing price during January, up from a median […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384412","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=384412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}