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Should A Seller List Their Brooklyn Home In December?

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
List their Brooklyn home in December

If someone must list their Brooklyn home in December, the holiday decorations need to be nixed.

Nobody wants to list their Brooklyn home in December. I mean, who in their right mind, would add selling a home to their Christmas to-do list, right? You’re already very busy and doing your best to keep up with the chaos of going to parties and family get-togethers, shopping, mailing Christmas cards, wrapping and preparing lots of Christmas goodies through New Year’s Day. Well, life happens, and it usually happens when we least expect it.

Most people do not choose to list their Brooklyn home in December

Most who list their Brooklyn home in December must sell due to a major life change. Death, divorce, a birth or a change in job status, can take someone by surprise and turn them into a “forced seller.”  You’ve seen the signs, “Everything must go,” or “Moving Sale.”

Ideally, a Brooklyn listing should be on the market for only a few days. But it’s quite possible a December listing could remain on the market through spring. If that happens, what pictures will potential buyers see of that December listing as time passes? The pictures they see must look as fresh in May as they did when they were taken in December. That can’t happen if the pictures posting in the spring show a home’s halls decked with boughs of holly.

If a home must list in December, efforts should be put into pre-inspections, repairs, cleaning, staging, photographs and marketing with any time of year in mind. Potential buyers should be moved by the house itself, not by the way a home is decorated for the holidays.

For example, let’s say you love Halloween. A lot of people do. But you wouldn’t go to a job interview dressed in your favorite Halloween costume, right? The human resources person holding your interview will see your costume (or decorations) rather than you and your resume.

People should not list their Brooklyn home in December with pictures of decorations

Selling a home takes skill. Sellers should work to present their listing in such a way that they bring a potential buyer to a decision to buy. Posting pictures of your home in July with fall leaves and fall decorations may cause a potential buyer to think, “What’s wrong with this house? It’s been on the market since last fall.”

If a seller is forced to list their Brooklyn home in December, the house should be prepared to sell at any time of year. Decorations for a specific time, year or holiday will date a home in an unfavorable way.

So, if you must list your Brooklyn home in December and a Christmas tree in the home is a must, put it up on December 24th and take it down on December 26th. Decorations can nix a sale faster than you can say “Price Reduction”!

If someone you know must list their Brooklyn home in December, call Charles D’Alessandro, your Brooklyn real estate agent with Fillmore Real Estate. at (718) 253-9600 ext. 206 or email, [email protected].

Resource: http://blog.rismedia.com/2015/not-so-happy-holidays/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email