...seat with their homes selling within days of listing, often after bidding wars that increase the sale price above the asking price."" The 30 largest metro areas in the country...

...report, investment purchases generally put downward pressure on prices, but in the most active markets, where there are bidding wars for the limited supply of REOs, prices for REOs increased....

...housing market continued to heal, as home values experienced their eighth consecutive month of increases,"" Humphries said. ""Tight inventory levels are leading to bidding wars and multiple offers across the...

If the buzz about bidding wars is true, ""Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey"":www.insidemortgagefinance.com/housing_pulse/ reported those accounts did not boost prices in its findings. [IMAGE] Homes are selling below the...

...difficulty competing with investors who are paying with all cash. Local agents are reporting bidding wars among prospective buyers, with homes going for more than the asking prices. Artunian notes...

...indicating that bidding wars are still the norm. In Redfin's own Bay Area business in April, offers on all property types under $500,000 faced competition 88 percent of the time,...

...conditions in many parts of the United States were driven by declining inventories in the low- to mid-price range home categories, which some respondents also linked to more-frequent bidding wars....

Competition for homes decreased in August for the fifth month in a row according to """"data"""":http://www.redfin.com/research/reports/real-time-bidding-wars compiled by the Redfin Research Center. [IMAGE] The report concluded that the diminishing number...