As a real estate professional, this number surprised me. People are making one of the biggest financial purchases of their lives, and they are willing to make an offer sight-unseen? And there are situations where real estate investors are willing to make an offer sight-unseen for a great deal. They would have well-founded concerns about a sight-unseen buyer getting cold feet. Marshall Park is a real estate broker at Redfin in Virginia who writes an occasional column on the local real estate market.

Source: Washington Post August 01, 2017 12:56 UTC