When you see a house that’s been sitting on the market for a while, the reaction is almost automatic.

If you’ve seen headlines saying foreclosure activity has been climbing for 10 straight months, it’s easy to assume that’s a sign of trouble for the housing market.

Planning to sell this spring? While you may be tempted to hold off until the first blooms or the spring showers hit, that’s actually waiting too long to get started by today’s standards.

It’s hard to scroll online lately without seeing some version of this claim: “Big investors are buying up all the homes.”

Want to know the #1 thing homeowners regret when they sell without an agent? It’s that they didn’t price their house correctly for their current market.