Home for the Holidays

Walk into any mall, department store, or stroll down any residential street and the signs are everywhere. The holidays are coming! Lights, gifts, holiday cookies, decorated trees, yuletide joy…what about selling a house? There are a lot of home sellers who take their homes off the market during the holiday season opting to wait until after the first of the year. What does this mean for the overall market? Well if there are still home buyers and less homes available for sale...demand stays the same and the supply goes down. Early spring normally means a pick up in sales and normally carries us into the peak of the home buying/selling season. There are the stress reasons of not wanting to try to sell a house on top of everything else that goes into making the holidays successful. But, if you can swing it, here are a few things to consider.

1) Less supply and more demand for your house!
2) Everyone else is waiting until after the New Year…you are the early holiday bird hopefully getting the worm (umm…sale)
3) Most people clean and decorate their homes for the holidays. This type of home during the holidays will be warm and inviting to buyers
4) Many people have time off during the holidays and couples have more time to look at houses together. Additionally, buyers looking during the holidays are likely to be more serious.
5) If you sell now and plan to buy after the sale of your house, your choices will be more plentiful and you will be a better position to negotiate.

So how do you get these buyers into your house?

1) Curb appeal. Have the outside looking nice!
2) Decorate the home tastefully
3) Add a holiday welcome mat and wreath to your door
4) Keep the house warm, toasty and inviting for showings

Happy Holidays!!!!