{"id":4304,"date":"2019-01-28T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/why-it-makes-no-sense-to-wait-for-spring-to-sell\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:09:42","slug":"why-it-makes-no-sense-to-wait-for-spring-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/why-it-makes-no-sense-to-wait-for-spring-to-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It Makes No Sense to Wait for Spring to Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190128-Share-KCM.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Why It Makes No Sense to Wait for Spring To Sell | Simplifying The Market\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190128-Share-KCM.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/08124242\/20190128-Share-KCM-549x300.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\"><\/p>\n<p>The price of any item (including residential real estate) is determined by the theory of \u2018<em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2018\/10\/01\/how-does-the-supply-of-homes-for-sale-impact-buyer-demand\/?a=364401-3b56ebb70dafbecc4de42825d439e92e\">supply and demand<\/a><\/u><\/em>.\u2019 If many people are looking to buy an item and the supply of that item is limited, the price of that item increases.<span id=\"more-38747\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/research-and-statistics\/housing-statistics\/existing-home-sales\">supply<\/a><\/u> of homes for sale\u00a0dramatically increases every spring, according to the\u00a0<em>National Association of Realtors<\/em>\u00a0(NAR). As an example, here is what happened to housing inventory at the beginning of 2018:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180128-MEM-ENG.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38748\" src=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180128-MEM-ENG.jpeg\" alt=\"Why It Makes No Sense to Wait for Spring To Sell | Simplifying The Market\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180128-MEM-ENG.jpeg 2000w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/08124202\/20180128-MEM-ENG-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/08124202\/20180128-MEM-ENG-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Putting your home on the market now, rather than waiting for increased competition in the spring, might make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Buyers in the market during the winter are truly motivated purchasers and they want to buy now. With limited inventory currently available in most markets, sellers are in a great position to negotiate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of any item (including residential real estate) is determined by the theory of \u2018supply and demand.\u2019 If many people are looking to buy an item and the supply of that item is limited, the price of that item increases. The supply of homes for sale\u00a0dramatically increases every spring, according to the\u00a0National Association of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-sellers","category-move-up-buyers","category-selling-myths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","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=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}