Time from showing till offer?

[Girl]

When we bought in 2001, we viewed the house one evening after work (I felt bad - the wife was in the middle of making dinner when we showed up - I kept apologizing and apologizing about our intrusion). We loved the house so much we had the real estate agent take us to her office to write up an offer. She submitted it the following day.

When we sold that house in 2006, my husband and I were hanging out in the backyard during a last minute, unexpected showing. The real estate agent came out when it was done and gave us a verbal offer. DH and I spent a couple minutes discussing, then countered to the agent. Real estate agent came back a couple minutes later (the family he was representing was in the front yard while we were still in the back) with the acceptance of our counter and the paperwork for us to sign. And just like that we were under contract. Took about 10 minutes from the end of the showing to signing the paperwork.

We had been on the market two weeks, had about a dozen showings. Got 95% of asking price in a flagging market. We were thrilled.

With our current house we offered the same day that we saw it - it was a FSBO and they had told us that had already accepted an offer but it was contingent upon the buyer selling their current house. We told them we'd like to present an offer because we had no such contingencies. We dropped off our offer that evening - we came in at asking. They called us later that night to say they accepted.

[Enkiktd]

Orange County, CA:
1st house purchase (2011) - 300+ days on market (stubborn sellers), I believe they'd gone through about 5 offers before accepting ours. Our offer was around 50k lower than their first offer that they rejected.

House sale (Feb 2015) - 4 days on market, accepted full price offer

Snohomish County, WA
House purchase (Feb 2015) - Offer made and accepted, 11 days on market, 97.5% of listing price