Warm Weather Heats Up Home Sales

Posted by Joel Nash Jun 13, 2007

Temperatures are rising and so is the anxiety for many homeowners to sell and find a new home before the kids go back to school in the fall. Those of us with children understand the anxiety of having our children switch schools midyear or finding a way to transport them back and forth from an out of district school location for the remainder of the year.

So with this in mind those of you with family friendly homes that are considering a sale now is the last chance to realistically move forward and be in a new location prior to the start of the school year. This is because traditionally in most areas homes will take, between 1 week, and 30 days before they receive and accepted offer. In many of those cases the conditional periods will take another 7 to 14 days. Finally offers often close between 30 to 60 days after they have been accepted. In essence leaving you a very limited time to locate a home for yourself before the youngster’s head back to school.

Now after all that you have to face the reality that you now have a window of opportunity of less than 60 days to find yourself a home before the summer ends. Prepare yourself for a flurry of activity like touring to find the perfect home, get that offer accepted and then clear all of your conditions. Next play the waiting game of meeting with lawyers for the sale of your current and future residences. Scramble to get all of the kids registered for school. If you accomplish all of these daunting feats then you have probably run all the way through the summer heat.