The Boxing Day Bounce: Ready To Sell Your Home?

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Did you know that on Christmas Day in 2015 Rightmove hit a record of over 31milion views, rising to 44m on December 30?

There are many things to look forward to over the festive period and hopefully there is something that you are keen to enjoy. A lot of people like the period between Christmas Day and New Year, seeing this as an ideal chance to relax, enjoy the contents of your selection boxes and catch up with some box sets. However, this is also a great time to be active and the right sort of planning can help you make the most of New Year. If you are planning on selling your home, you should be mindful of The Boxing Day Bounce.

The Boxing Day Bounce is the name of the phenomenon which sees potential property buyers flocking to online property portals to see what homes are available. On Christmas Day in 2015, Rightmove welcomed millions of people on to their site and on Boxing Day, there were even more people checking out what the site has to offer. By the time of the first full working day of January 2016 Rightmove had 127 million visits on their website looking for a new home.

Winter is a time when you can sell your home
This means this time of year buyers are looking for property, and this means you need to be ready to sell your home if you are serious about selling. When you have this volume of buyers holding an interest in property, you need to make sure that your property is presented well and is listed in the right places and for the right audience. This is very important as different roads attract different sort of buyers, make sure you are advertising it correctly.

Another strong reason why you should look to place your property on the market at this time is down to the fact that some people won’t take this step. Some people may be busy at Christmas, they may want to focus on the festive period with loved ones or they may not think that there is going to be a sufficient level of demand for property at this time of year. The facts presented by online property portals suggest that there is a good level of demand but if other homeowners don’t want to sell their home at this time of year, it is even better news for you.

Get the odds working in your favour
When you have a greater volume of potential buyers and a smaller number of properties on the market, your chances of selling your home are better. This is the key factor why you should have your home on the market over Christmas and New Year if you want to sell, because your chances will be improved.

I know that people are busy in the run-up to Christmas, but if you are looking to sell your home in 2018, it makes sense to act now. Get in touch with a good agent who understands the local market, who will advertise the property for the right people, I like to call agents as passive and active. A passive agent is the one who most likely will overvalue your property just to get you in to his books, after will take property on the market and wait for people to call.

An active agent will speak to you to find out your exact expectations, will give you an honest valuation, will target the property for the right people, will have already a list of potential buyers, will advise you if is worth to have any work done to the house, will be involved in properties for long time and have developed a large relationship with buyers, investors, property hunters. An active agent will most likely have only few properties on the market because others are already sold, they do not hold on to properties for months or years trying to sell.

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