Reading an Uxbridge reduction
For a house in town, compare the new asking price with what sold nearby in the past few months, visible to signed-in members of the site. If the new figure sits among those sales, the seller has met the market; if it is still above them, the cut is a gesture rather than a correction. For a country property, comparables are harder, so weigh the components: the house itself, the usable acreage after moraine and Greenbelt rules, the state of the well, the septic and the outbuildings. A reduction on a property whose land cannot be severed or built on is still not a bargain if the price assumes it can. Then check the listing's history for a relisting, a change of brokerage or photographs taken in another season, and ask the Millers to call the other side.