• The Hidden Cost of Overpricing Your Home,Kathryn Schenk

    The Hidden Cost of Overpricing Your Home

    There’s a persistent myth in real estate that overpricing is a harmless starting point. List high, leave room to negotiate, and let the market “tell you” where the price should land. It sounds measured. Strategic, even. In practice, it’s closer to setting your own house on a slow, polite fire. Overp

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  • When “The One” Isn’t a Strategy,Kathryn Schenk

    When “The One” Isn’t a Strategy

    There is a particular moment that quietly derails otherwise sensible buyers. It rarely looks dramatic. No one announces it. It tends to arrive somewhere between the second showing and the third Zillow refresh, when a house shifts, almost imperceptibly, from being a property to being their home. Once

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  • If It’s Not in the Contract, It Doesn’t Exist,Kathryn Schenk

    If It’s Not in the Contract, It Doesn’t Exist

    There is a particular kind of sentence that circulates in real estate conversations like a bad rumour: “Don’t worry, we agreed on it.” It sounds reassuring. Collaborative, even. The sort of thing that suggests two reasonable adults have reached a mutual understanding and can now proceed like civiliz

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