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The 6 Week Window of Sale for Your Home

In many cases in life, the rule of thumb bring 14% of all the activity your home
is "time is on our side". Selling real sees over the next eight weeks. Let's
estate in any part of the country is an assume, for a moment, that over the
exception to this rule. Not only is time course of eight weeks, 100 potential
not on our side; it actually plays buyers will see your home. Fourteen of
against the homeowner and their Agent these will see the home in the first
when they are trying to get their home week.
sold. Home Sales Activity Week #2
Depending on whether you're in a buyer's Week number two is the best, based on the
market, a seller's market, an activity generated for you home, with 28%
appreciating market, or depreciating of the eight week activity occurring in
market, many factors play against a this time frame.
homeowner whose goal is to sell their By this time, there have been Agents
home for the highest price in the through your home, and they are all aware
shortest amount of time. If that's not of what you have to offer their potential
your goal as a homeowner, perhaps you buyers. The advertising, which often has
should reconsider placing you home on the a time delay associated with it, is now
market. I'd be willing to bet, however, in full force.
that it is. The word is now officially out!
Time on Market vs. Activity Home Sales Activity Week #3
The amount of time a home is on the Week number three runs a close second to
market actually controls the amount of week number two with 23% of the buyer
activity the home will generate. The activity occurring during this time. By
bottom line is your property will attract this point in time, your home has
the most activity from prospective buyers officially seen 65% of the activity that
and real estate Agents when it first it's going to get in the first eight
appears on the market. weeks on the market.
This has been statistically proven over This is definitely not time to give up or
and over for decades, which is why it is change anything, but it certainly is a
so important to price your home at its time to consider where you're at.
fair market value from the get-go. If Home Sales Activity Week #4
you don't, you may be wasting your time The fourth week on the market is the
and all the activity your home sees in third best activity-wise . . . beating
the initial stages of being on the out week number one with 17% of the total
market. You see, over time, the market activity.
will actually communicate to you what it Considering that 82% of all the activity
thinks of the price you have placed on you will see has already occurred by this
the home. Seasoned Agents are more than time, it definitely warrants a discussion
familiar with this phenomenon, which is with your Agent about whether your price
why they start to get nervous after a is at or near fair market value. If your
home has been on the market for more than Agent is confident in your home's price,
four weeks. There's a distinctive drop perhaps it's time you review their
in activity around the four to five week marketing plan and make adjustments.
timeframe. Home Sales Activity Weeks #5 - 8
The showing activity will actually Week five, in a decent market, is often a
decrease as the market time increases. time to make course corrections (a price
It's a naturally occurring phenomenon reduction, for example). Consider that
that can be controlled if you price your 7% of the activity will happen in the 5th
home at fair market value right from the week, and by this point in time, you've
start. seen 89% of all the activity you're going
Home Sales Activity Week #1 to see. It's definitely the right time
The first week your home is on the market to make a change.
is an exciting time full of activity. Also, note that weeks six through eight
Your Agent will begin to execute their see about 4% each. There's not a whole
marketing plan for you home, which can lot of activity left to occur for you
will include many of the following: print home in the last couple of weeks. The
advertising (postcards, newspaper ads, greatest opportunity of selling your home
flyers, etc), in-house marketing to is when it is a new listing. Once you hit
fellow Agents in their brokerage, local the six week timeframe, it's time to
board meeting announcements, Agent tours, start doing something differently. If you
open houses, and many others. don't make a change soon, you may miss
Believe it or not, the first week will the "My Home Sold" window of opportunity.




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