Three listings. Three price points. Similar errors.

There’s a shift happening right now that a lot of sellers are missing.

The sellers coming to market aren’t distressed.

They’re equity rich… and a little too comfortable.

I’ve watched three versions of this play out in the last six months:

Expired at $1.75mm after starting at $1.9mm.

Sat. Cut. Lost momentum. Expired. They told me after that they had many, many showings. Not one offer.

And the agent “didn’t sell it to the other agents”.

Another one I interviewed after they sat and expired at $1.750M, beautifully prepped, showed well.

But they rode two expireds down from $1.895mm.

12 months of keeping the home showings ready, getting dogs out, and uncertainty.

No offers. No real traction. Expired. And then vacant.

I suggested the transaction level was $1.650mm; they couldn’t get there and another agent got them to list at $1.695mm, where it went into contract in a week.

Third one: Offered (and expired) for a year at $4.75mm, anchored to that golden age of 2021-2022.

I proposed over a year ago at that expiration that a proper listing was a bit under 4.5mm, and it might clear at 4.25.

Sorry Mike, can’t do it.

Sat for another six months, now its on the market at 4.5mm for months.

Different homes. Different price points.

Same pattern. Not condition. Not marketing.

Pricing discipline.

And here’s the part many miss:

At these levels, “just a little high” isn’t harmless.

It’s enough to miss the entire demand window.

No offers → no feedback loop.

No feedback → no urgency.

No urgency → no competition.

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Once that window closes, you don’t get it back.

Now you’re chasing a market that’s already moved on.

None of these sellers had to sell.

All of them had real equity.

That’s exactly why it’s dangerous.

When the pressure’s off, precision usually is too.

This market isn’t forgiving that.

It’s not about exposure.

It’s not about waiting for “the right buyer.” That statement infers a needle in a haystack. If I’m listing your home, I want competition.

If I list you, the people that are coming to your home in the first week we launch have been calling their agents saying “when in hell can we see this one?”

Because our team is building demand and holding off supply.

It’s about getting one decision right, up front:

Positioning. Pricing. Timing.

Those are three levers of the same decision.

They’re one call. And each lever is dependant on the other with respect to whats already out there competing with you.

Miss one of those levers, and you don’t just lose time.

You risk becoming stale.

Instead of getting the bid side chasing you up, as opposed to the offer side (your listing) chasing the bid side down.

That’s how equity gets given away right now. Quietly.

Ask me how we launch for maximum equity protection.

Cause yeah, I sell houses, and help buyers. But what I really do is protect your equity.