That is probably it! You had just posted.
Everything good seems to be flying off the shelves in the North of the State, even a little West... I say that, but, what I meant to say is the buys/nice properties do. If it has been on the market too long, they better sing me a better song.
Now that I think about it, you wanted to build, didn't you?
Hehe no worries...
Yeah I have been noticing that as well, I keep finding homes on Zillow I like and within a week they are pending sale. It is a good question to ask when buying the home why it has stayed for sale so long. Or why a previous offer fall through. I can see those kind of things in Zillow so I will keep that in mind.
I was considering having one built, but my friend that does that kind of work is too busy right now. So I would rather not find a contractor that I do not know, and just buy a pre-owned home or new construction.
I look on Zillow too and most of the good ones go on the first Saturday or Sunday offered up. Usually with an open house, but, not always. Right now, the way I have been pricing it out, it is more to build it than to buy one already constructed, unless you are doing a lot of it yourself. I was hoping to step into an ICF build (OMG they are so bulletproof with the heating/cooling) and solar, a well, and septic - then call it macaroni. There is a lot of new construction, most of it being in higher density housing than I want. But, there are exceptions where they have 5 and 10 acre lots. *Why it has stayed for sale for so long? Overpriced or has some serious flaws... too close to Power Line Stations, swampy) In North Carolina around the Raleigh/Durham area, they get sucked up the first day and usually over the asking price. It's hot down there right now. To be honest, there is nothing that I can see that is making these fly so quickly except more people are moving out of the city and further away from DC... plus telecommuting has become the cheap way to float your company, especially in the high rent district.
I think it had a lot to do with your state legalizing cannabis, it's the only state in the South that has done that.. and they also have home grow which is pretty rare in medical cannabis states on the east coast.
When colorado legalized the same thing happened to the housing market in the state as they were the first to legalize.. now Virginia has done that too people are going to move to the state for more freedom.
Now that's true and I didn't really think about that. More freedom doesn't mean they won't tax the heck out of us!
I would rather them tax it than keep it illegal. The money can help rebuild roads and fund things otherwise that went underfunded.
The revenue from taxing it can be a lot of more, shocked more states do not consider the income that can be generated by the cannabis market.