Advantages of Selling A Knoxville Home During The Holidays

What are the advantages of selling a Knoxville home during the holidays? Many people in the process of selling a home in Knoxville assume the holidays are not a good time to find a buyer.  If it’s not spring or summer than good buyers aren’t to be found, right?  While many buyers do plan their home buying during those seasons, you absolutely can’t rule out the holidays.

Here are some reasons why the holidays could bring you a faster sale and a higher price when selling a Knoxville home:

• Less Competition For Your Home:  If standard operating procedure for most sellers is to take their home off the market during the holidays, and most sellers getting ready to put their home on the market choose to wait until after the holidays, that’s great for you.  Think of all of the competition that will evaporate away and or stay away from the market, leaving you to shine like a star on top of the Christmas tree!  With less competition, your home will get more buyers checking out your home.  It’s like being in the window display at Macy’s!

ADVICE: Remember though, just like those Black Friday deals at the front of the stores on Friday after Thanksgiving, your house also needs to look good and be priced to sell!

• Holiday Buyers Are Motivated:  If Knoxville home buyers are taking time out of their busy holiday schedule to look at your home, they are SERIOUS.  These are buyers who may have just been relocated for a new job in Knoxville or they’ve been scouring all of the Knoxville homes for sale for months and are just waiting for the right one to jump on.  No matter what their reason, your typical holiday home buyers in Knoxville are not tire kickers.

ADVICE: If they are willing to look during the their busy holiday season, don’t make it hard for them!

• Nothing Says Home Like The Holidays:  Everyone gets emotional around the holidays.  Buying a home can be an emotional decision. Couple those together and get someone emotional about your home during the holidays.  Think about how good your house looked for that holiday party.  How you painstakingly decorated so everything looked perfect.  Take advantage of that!

ADVICE: Don’t go overboard a la “Christmas Vacation”.  Continue to keep the clutter to a minimum, but add some tasteful holiday decorations. Allow the buyers to see their own family enjoying the holidays there.  Oh, and when the holidays are over, take it down, pronto!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

To speak to someone about listing your home or sitting down to talk about a plan, contact Troy Stavros with Gables & Gates, REALTORS at 865-999-0925 today!