Unloved and unwanted in 2020, bidding war today

The listing for 5 Pilgrim Drive then priced at $724,999 expired in February, 2020. Four years later it came back on at $899,000, essentially untouched, but with a different broker and a new agent, and it went in 4 days. Obviously, this is a far different market than the just-emerging COVID one, but I believe at least part of these different results can be attributed to the use of a professional photographer instead of the Raveis agent’s inexpert use of her cellphone camera. Houses are first seen by buyers on the Internet, and there was absolutely nothing appealing — in fact, it had to have been a total turn-off — about the presentation in 2021-2022. If you can’t or won’t do a decent job, regardless of the price of a listing, just don’t take it, and find another line of work instead: Red Lobster isn’t, but I believe The Olive Garden is still hiring.