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Home Prices Can Always Get More Ridiculous
Welcome to the (maybe) new normal.
Oh! Too slow.
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An amusing video about housing has been blowing up suburban New Jersey social media recently. In it, a harried real-estate agent pushes a client to buy a house sight-unseen and rues losing a bidding war for a shed by an interstate rest area that “went for $150,000 over asking.” She also discusses a “pocket listing,” where somebody sells their house without even putting it on the market.