Realtors are often encouraging sellers to list below market rate to encourage bidding wars. When you have to go through several of these before you can get into

Realtors are often encouraging sellers to list below market rate to encourage bidding wars. When you have to go through several of these before you can get into a house, it causes quite a frenzy in people. This isn't the norm across the country. In other markets, realtors usually have clients list houses above market value with the expectation the sellers will come down.