A Good Home Is Hard To Find
The first day of spring typically signals the high season for open houses and home sales,
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The season seems to have arrived early in some places where homebuying is already frenzied,
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In Baltimore, Patrick and Britney Bove are fighting on two fronts, so to speak. On one hand, they're hosting an open house in the city's Hamilton neighborhood, and on the other, they're trying to find a house to buy. This is proving difficult, much harder than it was last summer when they casually sampled the market.
"There seemed to be a lot more houses on the market," Patrick Bove says. "Everywhere we looked, every weekend, there was something cool. Now that we're finally looking,
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There's a kind of mad quality to their search, and it's made worse by alerts they get to their phones from realty website Redfin every time a new listing posts. They'll even check them in the middle of the night,
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"The other day I was out shopping and I got an alert and I couldn't get Internet access in there, so I kind of started panicking,
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With so few homes on the market, he feels he's on constant alert. A notification he receives in the morning can already be off the market by the end of the day.
Rochelle Walker, the real estate agent helping the Boves sell their home, says that mood has permeated the whole market.
"I,
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Baltimore is far from being the hottest market in the country. But even in Baltimore, and specifically in the Towson area where the Boves really want to buy, inventory is down 47 percent from last year.
Also,
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With few options to choose from, Patrick Bove recently decided to check out an open house adjacent to his desired neighborhood.
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