A Riverside sale for less than asking price: does this mark the beginning of the grand collapse?

45 Willow Lane, priced at $6.550 million, has sold to a San Francisco couple for just $6.450. Oh, the horror! Of course, the owners themselves paid just $6 million (on an ask of $5.495) only eleven months ago, so their willingness to accept a decent offer that came in within a few days of listing it this time might indicate that they were perfectly content to grab the money and run: keeping a home in showing-condition and living a disrupted life for days, even weeks, is a pain in the ass.

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