Are you constantly being outbid when submitting an offer on a home?
Having a lower asking price is a widely used strategy by real estate agents to get multiple offers on their listing.
If you are seeing this a lot in your search area, adjust your budget!
Let's say your budget is $800k and you notice you have been outbid now a couple of times by buyers offering $25K above the asking price.
Adjust your budget down to $775K.
That way you can now be the one to submit an offer above the asking price.
You will now be the one who is outbidding all the other buyers by $25k.
Of course, have your agent do a market analysis on the property to make sure whatever amount you are offering is fair market value for the property.