{"id":21280,"date":"2022-05-02T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:26:40","slug":"crazy-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/crazy-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e5e5e5&amp;d=4-27-2022_may22_flipbook_cropped_tpr&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=44&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>How high is the sky? As housing prices skyrocket, bidding wars and fortnight sales are business as usual.<\/h4>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 45\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>BY SOFIA VOLTIN<\/p>\n<p>The first few hours in this lightning-quick Maine real estate market are critical. Appointments to show a competitively priced home may be fully booked within minutes. When real estate agents see this happen, we know we can safely bet the house will be under contract within a few days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 45\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u201cIn old-school, traditional real estate, we\u2019d say a house is on the market for six months in a balanced market,\u201d says <strong>John Hatcher<\/strong> of <strong>The Hatcher Group<\/strong> affiliated with <strong>Keller Williams Realty<\/strong> in <strong>Portland<\/strong>. \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to see that again. These days, if anything is listed for three months, buyers think there\u2019s something wrong with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/crazy-love-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"crazy-love\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/crazy-love-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/crazy-love-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/crazy-love-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/crazy-love-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/crazy-love-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/crazy-love.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How high is the sky? 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