To the Austin Seller in a Buyer's Market

We want to write to you plainly, because we think you deserve plain.

The market right now is hard. We know it. You know it. And if you watched what selling a house in Austin looked like in 2021 or early 2022 — a sign in the yard on Friday, fifteen showings by Sunday, multiple offers over asking by Monday — then what's happening today probably feels like something has gone wrong with your home, your agent, or both.

Nothing has gone wrong. The market changed.

The Honest Comparison

Here are the numbers, side by side. Not spin, not framing — just what the data says about how long a typical Austin home now sits before it sells.

That is not a story about your house. That is the environment every Austin seller is selling into right now.

Despondency Is Not a Strategy

It is easy to get despondent. We understand it. But despondency is not a strategy, and neither is waiting for 2021 to come back. So we want to ask you to do three things instead.

One — Be Patient, With Your Eyes Open

Patience and denial look identical for the first sixty days and very different by day one hundred and twenty. Give the market time to work, but watch the data the whole way. Showing counts, saved searches, feedback from agents who walked through. Information is louder than hope.

Two — Have the Candid Conversation With Your Agent

Ask directly, and ask without flinching:

• How does my listing compare to what is actually selling, not what is sitting?
• What are the real comps — closed, this quarter, this neighborhood, this condition?
• If this were your home, what would you do this week?

If your agent flinches from those questions, that is information too.

Three — Let the Financials Lead

This is the one most sellers skip. Let your financials lead the decision, not your feelings about the number. There are really only three doors in front of you.

Each of those has a real cost, and each has a real upside. The right answer is almost never the one that protects your ego — it is the one your bank account, your timeline, and your next chapter can actually live with.

Run the numbers on carrying costs. Run them on what a price reduction today versus six months from now actually nets you. Run them on what you would clear as a landlord, after taxes, repairs, vacancy, and the loss of your homestead exemption. Then decide.

Your Home, Your Call

This is your home and your call. Always. We are here to give you the data, the candor, and the options — not to tell you what to feel.

But the market is the market. It does not negotiate, and it does not remember 2022. The sellers who do best in this environment are the ones who stop arguing with it and start working with it.

We are in your corner whenever you are ready to talk it through.

Warmly,
Adam Timothy Group