21
Nov
Stocking Filler
Nick Churton of Mayfair Office takes
a look at the property market this December and suggests that this
is just the time to pick up a seasonal bargain.
December can
sometimes be a bit of a non-month in the estate agency year. People
seem to have a lot more things to think about than moving, and the
Christmas break seems to go on for so long nowadays. The weather is
often far from ideal and most people who wanted to move before
Christmas made their buying decisions by the early autumn.
But that is what
makes December such a good month to go house hunting. There
are not so many other homebuyers about, and as it’s so quiet
some sellers can be only too keen to listen to the sort of offer
they wouldn’t have considered a month or two ago.
In years past the
market used to pick up in the spring. But in more recent
times it has kick-started into life in January. With the
financial world still in so much disarray there is great
uncertainty about what will happen in 2012. But that is what
helps makes this December such a good time to be prowling the
market for property.
There are plenty of
very good houses and flats for sale right now with owners anxiously
looking for buyers. There are some first time buyers creeping
into the market - especially now that it often makes more sense to
buy a property rather than rent one. This helps second and
third time buyers, and with lenders slowly starting to take the
choke off mortgage availability there is movement in the market
when property is properly priced and attractively presented.
So instead of
hitting the shops so much this December in a pre-Christmas frenzy,
or getting ready for the early sale bargains, why not hit the
estate agents and grab a property bargain. Unlike so much we
buy at this time of year a property is not just for Christmas it is
for life. It is surely one of the best stocking fillers we
could give our families and ourselves.
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