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Every few years the housing market rewrites the rules, and buyers who learned the last set of rules show up unprepared for the new ones.

Right now, the rules have changed more than they have at any point in a generation. The buyers who understand that are finding deals.
The ones who do not are making expensive mistakes.

Home prices at the national level have stayed stubbornly high even as financing costs doubled in under two years.
The reason is supply. The locked-in effect has kept available inventory at historically low levels in most markets, which means the correction that many analysts were expecting simply did not materialize the way the data suggested it should.

Sheila is a name you might hear from a lot of agents right now, because the buyers getting deals done tend to know exactly what they want and why.
That is not a personality trait. It is a preparation habit.

Before you look at a single listing, get your pre-approval locked down. Not a rough estimate.
Not a verbal confirmation from a loan officer you met once. A full pre-approval based on verified income, tax returns, bank statements, and a hard credit pull. Any agent worth working with will tell you the same thing: no pre-approval, no offer.

The appraisal is the lender’s check, not yours. A low appraisal means the buyer has to make up the gap in cash, renegotiate, or cancel.
Ask your agent how common appraisal gaps have been in your target price range and neighborhood.

Budget enough to cover origination fees, title, escrow, prepaid taxes, and insurance without being caught short at the table.
First-time buyers routinely underestimate this number. Ask your lender for a Loan Estimate as early in the process as possible.

Real estate is illiquid.
Buying and selling inside two years is almost always a money-losing proposition once you account for the full cost of both transactions. None of that means do not buy. It means be honest about your time horizon before you commit.

Real estate rewards preparation more than it rewards timing.
The market does not wait for the ideal moment, and neither should buyers who have done the work. A look at real estate listings and pricing data in your target area costs nothing and tells you a great deal.