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Resetting the Price Anchor Close

April 20, 2016 by Joe McAuliffe

The single most difficult challenge that agents have faced since real estate prices have declined has been convincing sellers to reduce prices. Sellers who have been taught their whole lives that real estate prices always go up, have found it difficult to accept the fact that prices at the height of the real estate boom were unrealistic. The rapid appreciation in prices since 2005-2006 created a bubble that eventually burst causing a significant decline in prices.

Unfortunately, sellers find it difficult to disregard what they think their house should be worth. The unrealistically high price has become an anchor for them. It directly impacts their perception of what they should sell for. In a sellers mind, if they think their house is worth $500,000 and it’s really only worth $300,000 today, they struggle with the thought of losing $200,000 in profit they could have made.

What agents fail to recognize is that these sellers emotionally don’t acknowledge that loss until they accept the agents’ justification of the $300,000 market value. In other words, a seller can pretend that they still have the $200,000 in extra profit until they agree with the agent. Many sellers choose to stay in denial by ignoring an agent’s logical justification of value. We know that fear of loss is a very powerful motivator and must face the fact that a $200,000 loss is hard for anyone to swallow.

The most effective way for an agent to get a seller to come to terms with this loss is to create the risk of an even greater loss in the sellers mind. This can be done by resetting the price anchor.

In the above example, the seller is anchored to the $500,000 high value and is unwilling to reduce the price to $300,000 because they don’t want to lose $200,000. By sometimes using new lower listings prices, an agent can show the seller the risk of new sales and listings justifying buyer paying less in the future.
By introducing the possibility of a lower value in the future, the seller becomes anchored to the lower price which becomes more compelling than the old anchor of $500,000. Think about it, the seller who was concerned about losing $200,000 now stands to lose even more. The psychological impact of the new price focus or reset of the price anchor to $200,000 has created an even great fear.

One of the best ways to overcome a fear objection is to create an even greater fear.

Filed Under: Negotiation Strategies

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