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Kindly_Boysenberry_7 OP t1_iu5cmce wrote

My lawyer answer: It depends.

To some extent I'm kidding, but actually not really. What I am seeing is less competition for houses, less activity through new listings in terms of number of showings and activity at open houses. So there is definitely a drop off - in activity, in sales, in offers. All the national data is tracking this too.

However, on the ground I am still seeing move-in ready homes in desirable neighborhoods that are priced correctly selling fast and sometimes with multiple offers and still over asking. However, that seems to be places like the Fan, the Museum District, Near West End, River Road corridor, etc. where there is a very constrained supply and still exceedingly high demand. Above a certain price point ($700,000ish) I am still seeing cash offers, so these people are not sensitive to the interest rate hikes.

Some of this is also being driven by people moving to RVA from high cost-of-living markets who think our prices are cheap, compared to what they are used to.

ETA: Punctuation

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1151am t1_iu69a9q wrote

> My lawyer answer: It depends.

With that kind of answer, you could get a job at BCG/KPMG/Deloitte as a Managing Director making $380k easily!

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Kindly_Boysenberry_7 OP t1_iu6ak6u wrote

Ha! The funny thing is in my previous life I was a Big Firm Lawyer. So I say "my lawyer answer" with more than a little of my tongue planted firmly in my cheek.

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