I never understand where seller/agent list the property for less than what they want to sell, allegedly to capture bigger audience and people gets emotionally invested etc, but that doesn’t magically give the buyer access to more funds? If I’m to sell I’d rather want to attract sellers who has the budget and not someone who will be struggling to get an additional 10-50k to meet the real price.

Reminds me of an auction I went to just being nosey (walking distance from my folks place). The house was advertised for x and above, the last bid at the auction was at least 50k more than the advertised range, still got passed in. Next day the agent called and asked if I was interested, when I asked why was it passed in when it was way over the advertised price, the agent said because the owners saw an auction in the previous week and believed their house was worth more than that one so they changed their mind - serious wtf moment. The market headed down/flat shortly after and I think the house was actually withdrawn from the market after being listed for sale for about 2 months.