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Why Spring Is Best for Selling Your Home

If you’re purchasing one of the beautiful Glenn Layton homes in Jacksonville Beach FL, you probably have another home you need to sell. Fortunately, spring is the best time of year to sell a home. Buyers and sellers are out in force, from March through June, making this the perfect time to put your old property up for sale.

For those with children who may end up in a new school district, buying a house at the end of the school year gives the children time to finish up at their old school and then get used to the new home and community during the summer before the new school year starts.

With spring comes the time change that leads to longer days. This means that people can view homes after work and still get a sense of what they look like during daylight hours. After all, curb appeal is important and homes tend to look their best during the spring when flowers are blooming and everything is green and glorious. If you have a pool, make sure it’s open and clean.  A sparkling pool at the end of a busy work day is sure to appeal to plenty of buyers.

Spring is when people are ready to make a fresh start. The holidays are over, summer vacation hasn’t started, and there’s more time to devote to finding the perfect house. With more people looking to purchase a home during the spring, that means more people viewing your home. Most buyers will probably have spent the winter preparing their finances and paperwork so that they can act quickly.

Despite a larger number of homes on the market, there’s still the strong chance that multiple people will be interested in your home. That leads to the possibility of a bidding war, which certainly helps the seller. The more interest in your home, the more you may have available to put into the downpayment one of the new homes in Jacksonville Beach FL. By making sure your home is on the market in the spring, you have a better chance of selling your home quickly and at a higher price, which is the goal of every home seller. The faster you sell, the more quickly you may be able to settle into your dream coastal home.

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