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8 reasons sellers aren’t selling (and how to get them off the fence)

Inman | Carl Medford

We all get to live once. In spite of market conditions that are effectively locking sellers in their homes, we are encouraging them to go after their dreams. Rather than live with regrets of what might have been, we are working with them to not let the current market rob them of their potential future.

It is no secret we are suffering through an unprecedented shortage of homes for sale. It’s affecting every segment of the market, and, at a time when rising interest rates should be pushing home prices down to ease inflation, the reverse is happening. It is a market unlike any other: it is stretching the bounds of home affordability, frustrating buyers and sellers alike and undermining the careers of real estate agents across the country.

The big question is, “Why?” Succinctly put, it is an unprecedented nationwide refusal of homeowners to put their homes on the market.

Read the full article: 8 reasons sellers aren’t selling (and how to get them off the fence)

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