The housing market slows during the holidays, but that could be the best time to sell your home. With less competition from other sellers and homebuyers who want to close and move by the New Year, you can use the holidays to charm and engage your home’s future owners with these 5 tips:
1. Pile on the hospitality. Lights, decorations and tantalizing cooking aromas can remind homebuyers of happy memories. Help homebuyers easily imagine themselves, their family and friends together in the festive home.
2. Keep pathways safe. Welcome homebuyers with a well-lit pathway cleared of snow and ice.
3. Keep decorations tastefully neutral. Too many colors and motifs can be distracting. Make your home festive with a unified theme, such as greenery boughs and tiny twinkling lights.
4. Play to your home’s strengths. Stick to themes that complement your home’s origins, whether contemporary, traditional, or historical.
Don’t overdo it. Don’t detract from the home with yard inflatables, gigantic Christmas trees, and holiday clutter. Buyers need to see the bones of the house and decide if they can make their lives there.
