Cash is king as real estate market keeps soaring

That two of the state’s population centers — both within an hour’s drive from Laconia — rank at the top of the Wall Street Journal/Realtor.Com list says a lot about what Americans are thinking about how they want to live, work, play, school, and raise their families in a post-pandemic future.

Chris Kelly, owner/broker of RE/MAX-Bayside real estate agency, said that, in a healthy real estate market, there will typically be a four-month inventory of homes for sale.

For Roche, New Hampshire continues to attract a lot of homebuyers because it offers a lot in terms of quality of life.

Sellers often prefer that kind of offer because it takes away some of the uncertainties that accompany financing and shortens the time it takes to close on a sale.

“People have learned they don’t have to travel into the office.

A lot of the purchases are cash sales, and where there is bank financing, those loans are solid, he said.

”People came up here to visit and they took pictures and then posted them on their Facebook page, and people all over the world got to see what it is like here.

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