: the price at which something is offered for sale
Examples of asking price in a Sentence
The original asking price for the car was $20,000, but I was eventually able to buy it for $18,000.
Recent Examples on the WebIn a buyer’s market, typically sellers will drop their asking prices to gain an advantage.—Jackie Reed, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024 That has given renters more options and forced some landlords to lower asking prices and even offer move-in incentives to compete for tenants.—Randy Tucker
cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024 This a 110-acre landmass with fresh water, an electric generator, and, most important, mobile service has an asking price of $160 million.—Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024 This may include offering at or above asking price, waiving inspections and offering flexible close dates for the sellers.—Jackie Reed, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024 Among the priciest items — asking price between $20,000 and $30,000 — is a typed 1965 letter to Bennett from Martin Luther King Jr.; in it, King thanks Bennett for entertaining those in that year’s Selma to Montgomery civil rights march.—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024 Offered jointly by brokers Fraser and Edmiston, Olympus has an asking price of $28.5 million.—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024 The last asking price before a sale was strikingly closer, averaging a mere 3% gap, as buyers and sellers are on common ground.—John Walkup, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 The national median asking price for homes reached $415,500 in February, according to Realtor.com, while the total value of U.S. homes grew 5.3% between December 2022 and December 2023, according to a Redfin estimate of 90 million properties.—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024
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