When is the best time to sell my house?

WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO SELL MY HOUSE?
Hello everybody, Abe Safa here with Century 21 The Harrelson Group here in South Carolina.
Today, I’m going to address one of the most popular questions that we get and that is “When is the best time to sell my home?”. We get asked that daily over and over and over again and here’s the simple truth. Many sellers out there and even a lot of data that you read out there, when you look at somebody’s blogs and some of this information that’s out there will tell you that spring-summer is the best time to sell your home. Now, that is true in a sense, so we do get more traffic in the spring and summer, there are more buyers out there looking and there is more traffic during that time but it’s a lot deeper than that. So, when I look to selling a home, I want to make sure that I’m very clear on what the sellers’ looking to accomplish, what your goals are, what’s your motivation is, what kind of timeframe you have so all these different variables come into play when I help them make a decision on what is the best time to sell so what we look at is you know what the competition is in your neighborhood, what the competition is in your zip code, what the competition is in the overall market for proper homes in the price point of what your home is. Now, to me that’s a lot more important than what time of year it is. Myrtle Beach, I’ve been here 31 years and year after year it’s becoming more of a year-round type of place where there’s traffic just about every single month of the year and now we do get a little bit of spike in early spring, early summer like every person out there thinks that that’s the best time to sell a home but frankly, when you look at the inventory it also coincides with that, you see the same inventory rise about the same percentage as the amount of traffic that starts showing up, so just because there’s more traffic here doesn’t mean your going to get the best price. To me what’s more important is what the competition is, the law of supply and demand, the less competition we have for your type of home the more likely we’re going to get a higher price for you. So any agent that knows what they’re doing is going to look at a lot more variable than what time of year it is so be careful, you know what you’re getting in to.
If you have any questions at all, please reach out to me so just to recap we’re looking at a lot of data, we’ll look in the time of year it is somewhat relevant but more importantly, what the competition is for your type of home, what the traffic pattern is right now for your type of home and most importantly you know what your needs and wants are. Those are the things that I look at in selling a home.
For any questions at all please reach out to me, I would love to be a resource for you and answer what questions you might have. Thank you.
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