Sentences with phrase «thousand over asking price»

It's all pretty crazy with 20 + offers on some properties and final sales prices $ 200 - 300 thousand over asking price as a common occurrence.

Not exact matches

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

With homes going for thousands of dollars over the asking price, you could be setting yourself up for a foolish investment.

Because for a stock that has a last traded priced of $ 5 or $ 6 and volume traded over $ 4M (i.e. it seems to be quite liquid), it is hardly likely that the difference from bid to ask would be as large as $ 1 (maybe for a stock that has volume of 4 to 5 thousand, but not for one having volume of 4 to 5 million).

Buyers can cripple themselves by blindly bidding hundreds of thousands of dollars over the asking price, especially with no conditions attached.

Listings are lasting only days on the market and it is not unusual for houses this week to sell for tens of thousands of dollars over asking price with little to no conditions and multiple offers.

In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.