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Is Christmas a bad time to let a house?

poppysarah
poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Are people actually looking between now and new year?
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  • donfanatico
    donfanatico Posts: 456 Forumite
    Would you move now if you really didn't have to?

    Depends on your market. If aimed at families I doubt you would get anyone now, viewings possibly for moving in a months time.
    If aimed at singles or young couples some might like to move now during the holidays in order to avoid taking time off work
  • camptownraces
    camptownraces Posts: 333 Forumite
    Letting Agents told me that Boxing Day gets more hits on Rightmove, Zoopla etc than any other day of the year. Could well be the same for sales as for letting. You may have left it too late this year.
  • phill99
    phill99 Posts: 9,093 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    I have a customer who is a landlord and had has a tenant moving in on 27th December!
    Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.
  • specialboy
    specialboy Posts: 1,436 Forumite
    camptownraces wrote: »
    Letting Agents told me that Boxing Day gets more hits on Rightmove, Zoopla etc than any other day of the year. Could well be the same for sales as for letting. You may have left it too late this year.


    That increase could be down to all the newly separated singles looking for somewhere else to live after a stressful Christmas.
  • kingstreet
    kingstreet Posts: 39,362 Forumite
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    specialboy wrote: »
    That increase could be down to all the newly separated singles looking for somewhere else to live after a stressful Christmas.
    That was mentioned to me the other day.

    Apparently, a family law solicitor terms 14 January as "D - Day" the day couples finally decide their Christmas "stay-together" trial has failed.
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  • whalster
    whalster Posts: 397 Forumite
    As said above January in General has always been a good time for a landlord it's the month for makeups and break ups
  • Callie22
    Callie22 Posts: 3,444 Forumite
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    We are moving just after the New Year and local agents wouldn't even let us view properties if we couldn't move in before Christmas. Those same properties are still empty ...
  • Kynthia
    Kynthia Posts: 5,692 Forumite
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    There may be tenants who were given notice by their landlord recently and are looking for a place to go to. They don't really have a choice about the time of year it is.
    Don't listen to me, I'm no expert!
  • chuckley
    chuckley Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    wen I was lookin xmas didnt stop me, but I did find ads reduce. I found they peaked right after NY's. I found the best times of the year are oct/nov and march/april.
  • outofmoney
    outofmoney Posts: 936 Forumite
    In reality it's only really three days that things pretty much shut down. Why should everything be put on hold for a couple of weeks. If someone needs to move, they will move.
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