Typically, January activity in real estate can be as cold as the daily temperatures. However, this is not just any January, especially when it comes to listing that home you’ve been thinking about selling.
For many months, there has been a dearth of listings throughout the Lower Mainland…indeed, throughout Canada. What better time to put your home on the market than a time when there is also a dearth of competition? That’s one of the reasons why home sellers are getting multiple offers that result in selling prices they perhaps hadn’t anticipated.
In a typical January, home sellers would wait for nicer weather rather than have visitors to their homes when it’s raining or snowing, and avoid the disruptions that rain and snow can bring. In a typical January, home buyers would wait, for many of the same reasons. There’s a reason why spring is traditionally the most active time for real estate.
Nicer weather.
But this is an atypical January. Home sellers can be drawn to the market by strong prices. Home buyers can be drawn to the market by a shortage of listings and, beyond that, a possible shortage of finding the home they’re hoping to buy. For them, inclement weather is merely an impediment they are happy to overcome.
For Jennifer and Dale, servicing sellers or buyers is what they are happy to do, in any kind of weather.