the improvements have become best practices and carry over. They also become canaries, for when you hear "well, that's what we used to do but now it is differe

the improvements have become best practices and carry over. They also become canaries, for when you hear "well, that's what we used to do but now it is different". There are best practices for buying a house, and then there were the "new way of things" during the bubble -- bidding wars, listings with offer expiration dates, etc. Three years ago, a real estate agent may have told you that you may have to be willing to pay more to get into the market or be priced out for good. That makes very little economic sense on an asset level, but it was the "new way of things". How is that working out now?