Ask 10 real estate agents if you should place your home on the market during the holiday season and you'll get 10 different answers and explanation. The reason for this is that its ultimately up to you! How bad do you want to sell your home, are you willing to continue to open your home for showings during family festivities and are you willing to tone down the holiday decorations are all questions each buyer will have to ask themselves when making this important decision.
If you leave your home on the market, some agents would say that you shouldn't decorate your home at all and continue to keep it as neutral as possible. The fear is that you would turn off potential buyers due to their preconceived notions about your celebratory traditions. Other agents believe that decorating a home during the holidays makes a home feel warm and inviting so the holiday traditions only continue to entire buyers to your home. Either way, you'll have to make the compromise - do you go all out or do you keep it all in storage? You could do a little of both and decorate a smaller tree or only display one menorah - but either way you run the risk of buyers making assumptions.
Homes don't sell in December - myth or fact? Well, I'm sure that there are plenty of realtors who have found true buyers who located their dream home during the hollidays but my experience has been that often the home search goes on hold. Shopping for homes often takes a back seat to holiday festivities and the gift purchasing. Buying a home is such an emotional event that often people can feel overwhelmed with the task during December.
With all this being said, I have a true buyer I'm working with who is hoping to close on a house before the end of December - so you never know how its going to play out! Good luck!
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