Home Buyers Might Not Request Showings Of Your Home With Minutes. Gasp!

Looking back, one of the humorous things about the (crazy) real estate market in 2020, 2021 and 2022 was how quickly buyers would jump on every new listing when it hit the market.

When I would launch a new listing for sale via the MLS, Realtor.com, Zillow, local and national websites, Facebook, etc. -- I would invariably start getting showing requests within the first 15 minutes.

It was surreal how quickly home buyers were responding to new listings, running out to go see them that very first day that they were listed for sale.  After all... there would often be 20 - 30 showings within the first three days, and 5 to 15 offers within the first three days... so it's not surprising that the showing requests would roll in so quickly.

But now, it's back to pre-Covid normals, at least in this regard.  When a new listing is launched, I will often have a showing request or two within the first few hours or on that day -- but my phone doesn't immediately blow up with texts from buyer agents in that first 15 minutes any longer.

Certainly, the speed at which showings are requested, and the number of showings that are requested varies by price range, location and more -- but the requests aren't starting off quite as quickly as they were during the Covid era.