List Your Home During the Holidays

Homeowners who put their property for sale during the holidays will attract serious buyers, many of whom base their decisions on the emotions invoked by the season.

Buyers who shop during the holidays have fewer choices but more time to search due to work closures. Additionally, many are anxious to complete their purchases before the new year in order to take advantage of tax breaks and other financial incentives.

Meanwhile, sellers often find that holiday decorations jazz up the home's appearance. A holiday sale also allows them to make their replacement-home purchase during the busy spring homebuying season, when there will be more properties to choose from. In that case, sellers might want to request a later closing date or get the buyers to agree to let them stay until the start of the New Year.

Source: Nashua Telegraph (NH) 11/21/04); Ireland, Lois E.

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About Steven Beste

Steve’s first claim to fame is being a contestant, an imposter - - winner of the Yuma River Inner Tube Race - - on the classic TV Show ‘To Tell The Truth’.

Steve became a licensed real estate associate after successful careers in education, insurance and broadcasting. He was Director of the Executive MBA Program of a major South Florida public university. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Marketing and Advertising for a major Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance Intermediary. Steve’s been on both sides of the camera and microphone on TV and Radio in Rochester, New York. And in South Florida, he was on-the-air talent at WLYF. As a teenager, he was part of the New York City All-City Radio and Television Workshop, the launching pad of famous entertainers like Cousin Bruce Morrow and Angela Bofill. He’s appeared in numerous industrial shows and films for Eastman Kodak and Xerox and does commercial voice-overs.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Steve became a Florida resident in 1982. He’s lived in the East Broward neighborhoods of Wilton Manors, Rio Vista, Sailboat Bend and the Morningside neighborhood of northeast Miami. He’s owned investment properties in Fort Lauderdale.

Steve majored in History at SUNY – Brockport and earned his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in International Business at Florida International University.

Steve’s free time is spent enjoying the beach and the gym and walking his bad puppy Ruffy. He is a global traveler, having visited France, Australia, Italy, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Hong Kong and China, Malaysia and Singapore. Ask him for his travel tips!