Buying a Home in a Hot Market

Buying a Home in a Hot Market

Following One Family Through Eighteen Months of House-Hunting in a City That Wouldn’t Let Them Catch Their BreathBy Daniel Voss
Michael Caine
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Length8h 35m

About this audiobook

A practical home-buying guide that follows one family through 18 months of bidding wars, rising mortgage rates, failed offers, and hard-earned lessons in Boston's competitive housing market. Drawing on real-world experience, veteran agent Daniel Voss explains inspection waivers, mortgage math, pre-approvals, pricing mistakes, agent selection, and the realities of homeownership after closing. Combining market insights with a compelling narrative, this book offers first-time buyers a realistic roadmap for navigating today's challenging real estate market.

Audiobook details

GenreBusiness and Economics
Length8 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Buying a Home in a Hot Market
2The Phone Call That Started Everything
3The Pre-Approval Letter That Wasn’t What They Thought
4A Map of the Map
5The First Showing
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6Rates, Rates, Rates
7Open Houses and the Theater of It
8The Inspection Waiver Conversation
9A Pause for the Money Question
10The Lost Summer
11Two Almosts
12The November Reset
13Thanksgiving, Rates, and the In-Laws
14Three Houses in December
15The Saturday Phone Call
16Newton Upper Falls, a Sunday in December
17The Inspection, the Appraisal, the Things You Cannot Control
18Closing Day
19The First Ninety Days
20Spring, Taxes, and the First Bill You Didn’t Expect
21Six Months In: The Refinance Conversation
22Becoming Neighbors
23What I Would Have Done Differently
24The Things They Don’t Tell You About Year Two
25What I Want You To Take From This
26Houses We Almost Bought: A Field Guide
27The Lender, the Inspector, the Attorney
28Three Years In
29Where Rates Go and Why It Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think 2 06 A Conversation About Whether to Buy at All
30Postscript: A Letter to the Next Buyer
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