Q: Our house has been on the market for almost three months, and we have had showings but no offers. Our agent is telling us to lower the price, but a friend said we should take it off the market and relist it as new so it looks fresh. We are also tempted to just wait for interest rates to come down. Which is the right move? — Diane

A: The right move depends less on the house and more on you.

Before you touch the price or the listing, ask not what your home is worth, but how badly you want to be gone. Do you need to move, or would you simply like to move if the right number comes along?

Those are two different situations, and they lead to two different answers.

First, listen to what your showings are telling you. When buyers keep coming through and no one makes an offer, the market is telling you something. People are seeing the home and deciding it is not worth what you are asking. That is almost always about price.

If nobody were coming at all, I would look at the photos or the marketing, but steady traffic with no offers points to the number, plain and simple.

What you do about that depends on your situation. If you can comfortably stay where you are and are happy living in the home, waiting is a perfectly reasonable choice.

Real estate moves in cycles, and the market that feels slow today tends to come back around. There is no rule that says you must sell into a market you do not like.

You can take the home off the market, keep living in a house you enjoy, and try again when conditions improve. Living in your own home while you wait is not the same as bleeding money on a vacant one, and there is no shame in deciding the timing is simply not right for you.

But if you need to move or are tired of keeping the house ready for strangers every weekend, stop waiting and meet the market.

That means one honest, meaningful price reduction, not a slow trickle of small ones. A single, confident cut signals to buyers that you are serious. A series of tiny drops makes a home look wounded and invites lowball offers.

As for relisting the home, I would not count on it. The history follows the house, not the listing. Major search sites and every buyer’s agent can still see how long it’s been for sale, and a home that vanishes for a few days and returns at the same price fools no one.

To truly reset the clock, most listing services require the home to sit off the market for a month or more, which is a long time to wait just to hide a number you could have simply lowered.

So decide what you actually want first. If you are content to stay, wait without apology and try again another day. If you want out, price it to sell and be done.

The one choice that helps nobody is leaving it on the market, month after month, at a price buyers have already told you they will not pay.

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