Part of what impacts home prices are the outside forces such as interest rates, supply, demand, schools, and other business and neighborhood factors. Personal perception is a major factor in the market value of a home or neighborhood, and it is valuable information for any buy looking to get a fair deal, and any seller looking to market their property at a reasonable price.
So here is Home Predict, website that is allowing people from all over predict the value of homes and neighborhoods. What is important is that market value is a function of the Wisdom of Crowds. If 90 of 100 people think that a neighborhood’s average home is worth $200,000 it is good bet that as a buyer you should be looking to pay about that much, and as a seller it would be wise to list it as such.
In the market boom what we saw collectively was a skewing of the perception of value. We all thought homes were worth more, and therefore the price tags went up. Now as the market cools, and the economy slows we collectively are correcting our perception. Potential buyer’s value perception are the most important information to have, but a community wide poll would probably return similar results. I’d like to see a group of us getting on and helping to set the value of our homes and real estate here in Cincinnati.
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Part of what impacts home prices are the outside forces such as interest rates, supply, demand, schools, and other business and neighborhood factors. Personal perception is a major factor in the market value of a home or neighborhood, and it
Good Day, Ms. Moss,
We are considering relocation and chanced upon your site. In particular, we are interested in learning about the neighborhoods relatively near UC (but not dominated by transient student housing). Unfortunately, your blog had no contact info.
If you can direct us to info about the merits and drawbacks of such neighborhoods, we would be appreciative.
Aline / Matthew Shulman innerbanks@yahoo.com
Aline and Matthew thanks for your interest. We tried to send you an e-mail at the address above. Feel free to send me an e-mail and we can certainly give you some great pointers. As a matter of fact we will make it a point to write up some of the in town neighborhoods in the next few postings. Please stay tuned!