Posted on November 4, 2021 by Tom Grant
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We compare the COP26 meeting and little green men with the November property market.
Many more mature readers might remember childhood comics with little green men warning earthlings that "resistance is futile", it was awful feeling so helpless.
Yet in Glasgow at COP26, that is just what the scientists are saying. They warn that resisting change will only bring global catastrophe. The boffins say that the future is in our hands, but that we must act now.
In a way, selling property is the same. We have experienced an almost unnatural market for the past eighteen months. But things are slowly changing.
The market in some areas is not as gung ho as it was. Multiple competitive bids on properties aren't as common as they were. Buyers are more relaxed and feel they have more time. And over-priced houses are not receiving quite the high-level interest that they might once have had, especially with the prospect of higher mortgage rates looming.
For sellers, resisting this turn of market is futile. Keeping a property on the market in the hope someone will pay a premium in all but premium locations is fraught with risk and potential delays.
Just like resisting little green men or global warming, resisting or ignoring market conditions when selling a property is storing up trouble.
With little green men, the laying down of arms is sensible. With global warming, moving out of fossil fuels and into renewables is sensible. And with property, setting a sensible asking price from the outset, whatever the market, will always mean a faster and more secure sale.
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