Walk into an open house in Kettering or Beavercreek this fall and you'll notice something that wasn't happening much a year ago: sellers are willing to talk. Buyers touring homes along Far Hills Avenue or through Beavercreek's newer subdivisions are hearing agents mention closing-cost credits and rate buydowns almost as often as square footage and finished basements. At Irongate Inc., REALTORSÂ...
October is the honest month around here. The leaves come off, the light changes angle, the first real rain of the season runs through everybody's yard, and suddenly you can see things about a street that were invisible in July. Buyers touring homes this time of year with an Irongate Inc., REALTORS® agent get a look at the Miami Valley that summer buyers do not get, and most of them do not real...
There is one number in the local market reports that almost nobody outside the business notices, and it might be the most useful one for anyone about to write an offer or set a price. Across the Miami Valley, homes have been selling at an average of 100 percent of list price, month after month, for a long stretch now. Clients ask Irongate Inc., REALTORS® agents whether they should come in unde...
The first cool morning always arrives sooner than you expect around here. One week you are running the air conditioning in Centerville, and the next you are looking for a jacket before you walk out to the car. That shift is your cue, because the work you do to a Miami Valley home in September and October is worth far more than the same work done in January. Homeowners who call Irongate Inc., RE...
You open the inspection email and there they are, forty pages of photographs with red circles around parts of a house you did not know had names. If that made your stomach drop, you are reacting the way most buyers do. Buyers working with Irongate Inc., REALTORS® get the same report and the same jolt, and then we sit down together and translate it. An inspection report is not a verdict on the...
