I had a Landlord from The Banks email me the other day. She said she had been following my blog (the Bingham Property Market Blog) for a while and wanted to pick my brain on when is the best time of the year to sell a property.
If you are putting your property on the market, you don’t know how long it will take to find a buyer - no crystal ball to help with that one. At the moment, the latest set of figures for all 6 estate agents in Bingham, show the average length of time it takes to find a buyer for any Bingham property is as follows ..
Detached 136 days
Semi 57 days
Terraced 98 days
Flat 114 days
Overall average 113 days
If we roll the clock back to January 2016, the overall average time it took to find a buyer (again using data from all of the 6 Bingham Estate Agents) was 106 days.
So, on the face of it, things haven’t changed much over the last six months or so. Well, when I looked at the data going back to 2008, and every Spring since then, the average length of time it takes to sell a property usually drops between January and the Summer months, for it to rise on the run up to Christmas. For example ..
Winter 2008 - 158 days Summer 2008 - 125 days
and in more recent times …
Winter 2013 - 173 days Summer 2013 - 170 days
Winter 2014 - 119 days Summer 2014 - 88 days
Winter 2015 - 109 days Summer 2015 - 79 days
Coming back to the present, even if you placed your property on the market today in Bingham, if it takes you on average a little over sixteen weeks to find a buyer, then you can expect solicitors and the chain to take an additional eight and twelve weeks after that, before you move. It comes down to personal choice as to when you place your property on the market. Children often affect the decision. On one side you might delay putting that for sale board in your front garden so you can move in the summer school holidays, but on the other side, you might want to move sooner to be in the catchment area of a preferred school, in plenty of time for the next academic year?
There are times of the year when it's better to sell, and times when waiting a little longer can pay off in the long run. In a nutshell, I would say this is the way of the seasons ..
WHEN THE MARKET?
Spring: Customarily there are more house-buyers as the Daffodils show themselves
Summer: Sellers may miss out on house-buyers being on holiday
Autumn: The enthusiasm for buying homes returns
Winter: Interest diminishes as festive period looms
What this means to buyers and landlord investors is that they often pick up a bargain in later months of the year, as there is less competition from owner occupiers. So, whilst there are better months to achieve a quicker sale, the only piece of advice I can give to every home owner and landlord in Bingham, is do the right thing for yourself, do your homework and buy (and sell) with both your head as well as your heart.
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