Is Fall a Good Time to List Your Home?

Contrary to popular belief, fall is a great time to list your home. Not only will you face less competition from other home sellers, but the buyers out looking for homes will be far more intent on making a purchase.

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Is the fall a good time for you to list your home? There are a few compelling reasons it very well may be.

Sometimes, it pays to go against the crowd. What do I mean by that? I mean that in spring, everybody wants to list their home. The summer is when most of these homes are sold. By choosing to list your home now, you will have less competition. You have the advantage of being a newer home with a fewer number of days on the market than other homes that have been listed longer.

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Listing your home during the fall means
 having less competition to deal with.

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Fall is also a time when home buyers are more serious than usual. If you’re out looking for a home during the fall, you typically have a very pressing reason. Most buyers want to find something before the holidays get here. It’s also important to remember that interest rates are good right now, and we don’t know how long that will last.

If you are thinking of selling your home in the fall, then there are a few things to keep in mind.

It is important to have your home prepared and in good condition because buyers are only looking for homes that are in good condition. Fix all the little things that need repairs. For example, we’re all going to start running our heaters regularly, so check your HVAC and change out the filter so the home is warm and fresh-smelling.

Pricing the home appropriately is always key to getting it sold, but this is even more true in the fall because there is less time to recover if you need to do a price adjustment. Pricing appropriately involves looking at comparables, knowing the condition of the market in your specific area, and figuring out a strategy that will get the job done.

Our team would be happy to meet with you and talk to you about all of these things. If you’re thinking of selling your home sometime during the fall, give us a call or shoot us an email. We would be happy to help you!