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4 Reasons the Holidays are a good time to Sell your Simi Valley Home

Gingerbread manShould you sell your Simi Valley home during the holidays?

There are several positions on whether home Sellers should consider selling their homes or if their home is already listed, continue trying to sell their home throughout the holiday season.

The annual real estate agent hibernation generally starts the week after Halloween and carries on until Super Bowl Sunday. Many brokers and office managers can confirm the decrease of real estate agent  activity during this time. I believe this to be a defeatist approach by the agents that simply pull back activity during November, December and January.

The 4 reasons why I believe the Holidays are a good time to Sell your Simi Valley Home are:

  1. Many people improve and finish home projects have been they have been procrastinating on now that relatives and friends are coming to visit for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
  2. The festive decorations of the fall and winter can make a home look warm and inviting.
  3. The wonderful aromas of holiday cooking can make your home even more attractive.
  4. Buyers at this time tend to be more serious.

Really thinking about how attractive your home will be as decorated for the holidays and how good it will smell is easy-to-understand. But, consider the buyers who are out of this time looking at homes instead of shopping and partaking in holiday cheer.

This time of year, buyers searching for Simi Valley homes may be taking advantage of the slow work environment to purchase a home or a possible relocation prior to the new year. With all the holiday activities parties and shopping, anyone out looking for a home during the holidays tend to be a more serious buyer.

So if you’re considering putting your Simi Valley home on the market the holiday season, this could be a great opportunity as other homeowners wait till the new year to list their homes and some competing sellers take their home off the market till the new year. This creates lower inventory and less competition for your home among the more serious buyer pool. Go ahead get out your decorations, cooked those great holiday treats and enjoy your festivities because maybe your prospective buyer will too.

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About Ted Mackel

Active real estate broker and entrepreneur in Simi Valley. Ted has a passion for business, has deep knowledge about residential and commercial real estate and is one of the few to be a long time blogger/writer on these subjects. In his free time you'll find Ted enjoying baseball with his family (Go Dodgers), reaching his goal of spanish fluency, and pursuing his hobbies with RC aircraft and Lionel Trains.

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