How long were you in negotiations for before agreeing on a price?

When purchasing, how long did it take to get to an agreed upon price (pre-inspection?) Just curious how long this usually takes - and how long it CAN take.

Thanks!

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that day..we changed our price, they accepted

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It took a month before we agreed on a price. The guy was hoping for other offers. Eventually he gave in

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Offer, phone call 10 mins later, counter offer by seller, we accepted. All within 1 hr.

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3 days, we went back and forth a few times and the homeowners were living out of state

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We offered on Saturday. We all agreed on Monday.

So 48 hours.

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A day, we offerred at night, and by the next day, we had a counteroffer and then an acceptance.

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House #1:
purchasing: offer presented to agent, agent called seller, offer accepted. Total time 3-4 hrs.

House #2:
Selling: Offer presented to us, we counted, they accepted. Agreed offer within 30 min

Buying: Offer presented to agent, agent called seller, offer rejected, we refused to budge, agent called us back 2 days later offer was accepted.

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Less than 2 hours

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one day, we put our offer in at 10pm (good thing about friends being your realtor) on a thursday and they countered, we countered, they accepted by 7pm friday

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It took us about 3 weeks, if not more. Seller was being stubborn and wouldn't come down to our price. We went up a little and still nothing. Then seller said he had another offer (i think this was a lie), would we come up. We said no, highest we will go is X. Seller was told we were willing to walk away. Seller came down on price, only 2K diff from our top offer so we said yes. We really wanted the houe. Playing the stupid price game for so long was annoying.

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Made an offer Thursday evening. That same evening their realtor said they had another higher offer on the table and if we would match that the house would be ours. We refused and went up to the top $ amount we would pay for the house.

We got a call back Friday afternoon that they accepted.

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when we had bought our condo (this was over 6 years ago), we went back and forth for 2-3 days besides agreeing on a price

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As an agent, I've had many sales that have been negotiated in one day (phone calls go back and forth quickly or in a couple of instances, the seller just accepted the buyer's initial offer). On the other end, I've had negotiations that have stretched out a couple of weeks!

On average, I'd say it usually takes a couple of days to go back and forth a couple of times (sometimes people want to sleep on it, discuss offers with their spouses after work, etc).

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3 days