A clean way to pick a price range without guessing
You are trying to decide if you should start touring now or keep waiting for the perfect moment. My rule start touring if the numbers support your budget and you can move quickly when the right home hits, because the recent pace shows homes are still moving in a predictable window.
One number to respect from recent closed data is this a typical sale took forty days last month, and recent offers landed at about 100% of asking price. That matters because it tells me you should plan for a market where well-positioned homes still get full-price outcomes, but the timeline is long enough to be selective instead of reckless. Some metrics were not reported for this period. Confirm your comfortable monthly payment and translate it into a realistic target price by using the recent typical closed price of $220,000 last month as a sanity check. Tour with urgency anyway if a home fits your needs, be ready to write clean terms quickly because offers have been landing around asking. Keep your short list tight and decide your non-negotiables before you tour so you do not lose time inside that forty-day typical window.
