If you are thinking of selling your home after the holidays are over, why wait? To answer the question, here is a list of reasons NOT to wait, instead NOW is the time to put your home up for sale, if you really are serious about selling.
1. During the holidays, the most serious buyers are looking and ready to make the decision to BUY.
2. The number of houses available to serious buyers is limited because so many people mistakenly think they need to wait until after the holidays. This means the serious buyers will have already purchased a home before the first of the year and you just might miss the opportunity to sell.
3. A home shows better when it is decorated for the holidays. Buyers feel "warm" when seeing the festive lights and decorations and may be more inclined to buy now.
4. As above, the decorations work on the buyers' emotions making it more likely they will buy during the holidays.
5. Buyers have more time over the holidays to look for a home, since many of them are on vacation.
6. Serious buyers want to buy before the end of the year for tax and other financial reasons.
7. January is a traditional month for companies to transfer employees and these transferees cannot wait until the spring to buy. If you want to tap into the job transfer market, you need to be on the market during the holidays.
8. You have the luxury of offering your home during limited hours and can still have your home look like a showplace because of the holiday decorations. Buyers tend to be understanding of family events over the holidays instead of other times of the year.
9. You can sell now and postpone the closing or occupancy until after the holidays so as not to disrupt the festivities.
10. By selling now, you have beaten the competition that waited until after the holidays AND you now will have the option of more homes available to buy for yourself because so many others waited. Chances are that you just might get a lower price in the spring than during the holidays, because that seller waited, has more competition and you have already sold your house and made the most money possible.
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