Sentence examples for range pricing from inspiring English sources

"We started range pricing in a market very similar to this," said Carlton Lund, a broker with Prudential California Realty, referring to today's downturn.

Variable pricing, also known as "value-range marketing" or "range pricing," has gained popularity in the San Diego area over the last decade, becoming an established peculiarity of the region's real estate market.

Range pricing has been used in other areas of the country, like New York, Arizona, Michigan and Florida, but in no other place has it become as widespread as in San Diego.

Today range-priced listings make up 50percentt of all sales in San Diego County, with 15,335 properties sold with range pricing last year out of a total of 30,831 sales, according to Ray Ewing, the president and chief executive of Sandicor, a regional multiple listing service.

Whatever the range, prices are good.

Median (interquartile range) price was US$0.190.25.25).

Victoria Crown, a broker who is Mrs. Crown's partner and daughter, said that when the market was rising, agents used value-range pricing more than they do now.

The biggest advantage of using value-range pricing in this market is "giving people the opportunity to think they have the chance to negotiate," said Sharyn Crown, a broker at Napolitano GMAC Real Estate.

In addition, value-range pricing has thrived in San Diego because the multiple listings service adjusted its database to accommodate homes listed in price ranges; other listing services post homes only at a fixed price.

Value-range pricing "is effective in getting traffic and exposure," Mr. Burris said, "however, if the goal is getting a price in the middle of those ranges, I don't see it working right now".

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