{"id":3490,"date":"2017-10-25T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/the-1-reason-to-list-your-house-now\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:00:38","slug":"the-1-reason-to-list-your-house-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/the-1-reason-to-list-your-house-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The #1 Reason to List Your House, NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"354\" src=\"http:\/\/d39ah2zlibpm3g.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/24155448\/20171026-Share-STM1.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"The #1 Reason to List Your House, NOW! | Simplifying The Market\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d39ah2zlibpm3g.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/24155448\/20171026-Share-STM1.jpg 750w, http:\/\/d39ah2zlibpm3g.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/24155448\/20171026-Share-STM1-549x300.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\"><\/p>\n<p>The <em>National Association of Realtors<\/em> (NAR) released the results of their latest <em>Existing Home Sales Report<\/em> which revealed that sales rose 0.7% month-over-month, but remain 1.5% lower than they were a year ago. Some may look at these numbers and think that now is not a good time to sell their house, but in fact, the opposite is true.<span id=\"more-36402\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The national slowdown in sales is directly tied to a lack of inventory available for the buyers who are out in the market looking for their dream homes! The inventory of homes for sale has fallen year-over-year for the last 28 months and has had an upward impact on home prices.<\/p>\n<p><em>NAR\u2019s Chief Economist<\/em> Lawrence Yun had this to say,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cHome sales in recent months remain at their lowest level of the year and are unable to break through, despite considerable buyer interest in most parts of the country. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Realtors\u00ae this fall continue to say the primary impediments stifling sales growth are the same as they have been all year: not enough listings<\/em><\/strong><em> \u2013 especially at the lower end of the market \u2013 and fast-rising prices that are straining the budgets of prospective buyers.\u201d (emphasis added)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The houses that are on the market are selling fast, too! According to NAR\u2019s<em> Realtors Confidence Index,<\/em> the median number of days it took for a house to go from listed to under contract over the past three months was 34.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you are one of the many homeowners who is debating listing your house for sale this year, the time is now! Let\u2019s get together to discuss the specifics of our market!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released the results of their latest Existing Home Sales Report which revealed that sales rose 0.7% month-over-month, but remain 1.5% lower than they were a year ago. Some may look at these numbers and think that now is not a good time to sell their house, but in fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-buyers","category-for-sellers","category-move-up-buyers","category-pricing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}