These include the Bay Area, Las Vegas and Phoenix, according to the latest Zillow ranking of national buyers' and sellers' markets.
For those looking to buy a home, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic metros including Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia offer the most favourable conditions, with price discounts exceeding 5% in some areas and listings remaining active in some cases for 100 days or more.
Zillow analysed data on actual sales prices compared to asking prices, the number of days listings spent on Zillow and the percentage of homes on the market with a price cut, and ranked the 30 largest metro areas in the country to determine whether buyers or sellers have more negotiating power in a given market.
In this analysis, a sellers' market is not necessarily one where home values are rising, but rather one in which homes are on the market for a shorter time, price cuts occur less frequently and homes are sold at prices very close to, or greater than, their last listing price. In buyers' markets, homes for sale stay on the market longer, price cuts occur more frequently and homes are sold for less relative to their listing price, giving buyers more negotiating power.
