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
Length8h 24m
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 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Phone Call That Started Everything
2The Pre-Approval Letter That Wasn’t What They Thought
3A Map of the Map
4The First Showing
5Rates, Rates, Rates
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6Open Houses and the Theater of It
7The Inspection Waiver Conversation
8A Pause for the Money Question
9The Lost Summer
10Two Almosts
11The November Reset
12Thanksgiving, Rates, and the In-Laws
13Three Houses in December
14The Saturday Phone Call
15Newton Upper Falls, a Sunday in December
16The Inspection, the Appraisal, the Things You Cannot Control
17Closing Day
18The First Ninety Days
19Spring, Taxes, and the First Bill You Didn’t Expect
20Six Months In: The Refinance Conversation
21Becoming Neighbors
22What I Would Have Done Differently
23The Things They Don’t Tell You About Year Two
24What I Want You To Take From This
25Houses We Almost Bought: A Field Guide
26The Lender, the Inspector, the Attorney
27Three Years In
28Where Rates Go and Why It Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think 2 06 A Conversation About Whether to Buy at All
29Postscript: A Letter to the Next Buyer
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