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Is it worth trying to sell a house in September or best to wait till next year?

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PlaiceMarking · 04/05/2017 07:28

Hi, as the subject says really, is it worth putting our on the market this September or is it too quiet and we should wait until next spring?
Have you ever tried to sell your house between September and December if so how did you find it?

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wowfudge · 04/05/2017 07:51

If you want to sell it doesn't matter when you put it on the market. In fact, with potentially less competition it could work in your favour as there will always be someone who needs to move.

We put our old house up for sale at the end of October and had an offer after a month. Bit of a quirky house so not for everyone but we had a couple of viewings a week.

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PlaiceMarking · 04/05/2017 08:06

Thanks wowfudge if it's priced right I know it will sell (as would anything) finding something else to buy around then could be limited as well, I guess that's just a gamble anytime of year though :)

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witwootoodleoo · 04/05/2017 08:09

I'm not convinced it makes that much difference. Every time I've sold it's been between September and December and I've always had a buyer within a week.

MissDuke · 04/05/2017 08:09

To be honest it is still very quiet in my area anyway. I don't know if Sept will be much different to now anyway - though I appreciate your area may be very different.

ASDismynormality · 04/05/2017 08:11

In my area it wouldn't make much of a difference. I last bought sold Sept/Oct and found a buyer within 3 weeks, the house I bought had one open morning and multiple offers.

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PlaiceMarking · 04/05/2017 08:29

Ok, it seems it might be fine then, good to know as it definitely gives us more options, thank you :)

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C0untDucku1a · 04/05/2017 08:33

Ive this issue atm. Houses in my area are selling in a week. The house most recently sold on my cul-de-sac sold in 12 hours, with 18 viewings booked. The house we want is on a new build estate and wont be ready for 18 months. What do ee do? We looked at rented houses but they were dire.

sall74 · 04/05/2017 09:19

I don't think there are any ''good or bad'' times to sell a house these days... if it's sensibly and realistically priced it will sell relatively quickly regardless of what time of year it is... if it's over priced it will hang around on the market or a long time.

JT05 · 04/05/2017 09:31

I'm another one who seems to have sold houses in the Autumn, and of course bought someone else's in the Autumn.
It is annoying, thought to be told to market a house in the spring and then find you wait till the Autumn for a buyer!

nell15 · 04/05/2017 09:41

I'm not sure it matters too much. We sold ours in a week at the end of July. We only put it on at that ie school holidays because we'd had an offer accepted on a property. I think that there are certain times when people start looking for properties e.g. people come back from holiday and kids go back to school and people decide to sell up and be in a new place by Xmas

maddogs33 · 04/05/2017 09:46

We put ours on at the start of September and it was off our hands the first week of December (2016). Buyers probably will have a deadline of wanting to be in before Christmas which can work in your favour in getting a quick sale. If it doesn't get any offers you can always pull off the market and relist in the spring.

trixymalixy · 04/05/2017 09:55

We "sold" our house in October last year. We ended up accepting an offer under the valuation as not a huge amount of interest.

The sale fell through and we ended up with it back on the market in January. We had masses more interest and ended up with a bidding war and got £30k more than we had originally accepted in October.

So I will never ever try and sell a house just before Christmas again.

wowfudge · 04/05/2017 10:22

We've agreed sales 3 times in Autumn/Winter. When you need to move you need to move. I doubt we would have got more at a different time of year. You may in London/SE.

littlemetalcar · 04/05/2017 10:42

i think september is the very latest id be happy to sell my house.

we sold ours in January hoping to get a specific house (just missed it by a couple of days) and nothing came on the market we wanted so our chain below our buyer collapsed in march.

its only now in may that houses have come on again that we want to buy and obviously we have the hassle of selling our house again and going through the utter misery of keeping our house neat and clean with two small kids, full time jobs and no family support near by..

just be careful that you are confident you will be able to find a house that meets your needs otherwise you might be in the horrible situation we are.

littlemetalcar · 04/05/2017 10:44

wow trixy thats great new you got 30k more. i think we are screwed because a similar house to ours on our road has just sold at a much lower price that we thought it would have been marketed for. went in 4 days and we feel that it was undervalued.

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