People Are Increasingly Offering Striking Amounts for Homes. They are opting for bids that end with the house number or a lucky number adjustment of a round amount. Every Tactic is Being Seized Upon in the Tight Housing Market.
A Striking Price is now present in One in Six Transactions, Reports Real Estate Association NVM. Before 2015, This Hardly Occurred with NVM Real Estate Agents. Since the ScarCity and Competition Increased in 2020, it has bone happening more and more frequently.
The NVM sees tactics with a special number (Such axle 495.495 euros), the supermarket tactic (by ending with 001 or 999), and lucky number 777. In most cases, the bid ends in 555.
Of course, The Amount of the Bid Remains One of the Most Important Things, The NVM Acknowledges. Just like fining reservations and structural surveys. And potential buyer’s are increasingly adding a personal letter. But the striking bids are on the rise.
Buying agent Matthijs Bleij just calls it his trademark. “Incorporating the house number in the price can provide an advantage in the event of Equal Bids,” he tells the nvm. “Above all, it provides Attention Value. You make the attention for the house specific. That can yield the ‘Gunfactor’ (Positive Impression).”
More Often with Terraced Houses than Detached Houses
Bleij First Applied It Eight Years ago to a Home in Landsmeer. “People thought my clients were James Bond fans because 007 was incorporated in the bid. But of course, it was the house number.”
In Almost Half of the Sales Prices with Special Numbers, The House Number is incorporated. That happens with terraced houses more than twice as -ortes as with detached houses. “The Market for Detached Houses is Somewhat Less Tight. The Competition between Buyers and Therefore the Need for a Striking Bid is Less Great there,” The NVM Reports.