Instruct your agent now ?

If you are wanting to move in the early part of next year or by the spring, you should be instructing your estate agent of choice now. Waiting for the new year means putting your property on the market when everyone else does.
Most estate agents are going to have quite a lot of time to spare over the next two or three weeks. My advice is that you use this period to get everything in place, so that you’re in a position to hit the ground running, immediately the festive season is over. So, do your research, select your agent and instruct them. They in turn will have plenty of time to get everything ready – from taking good-quality photographs and preparing property details and other marketing materials, to advising you on any little things you can do to improve the buyer-appeal of your home, and getting your Home Information Pack sorted out.

The net result of all this is that you will be ideally placed to take the fullest possible advantage of the New Year surge in market activity which always follows the Christmas lull, like night follows day. So, while everyone else is waiting for their HIPs to come through, you will be able to begin marketing from Day One.

Bear in mind that one of the biggest challenges facing the market right now is a shortage of instructions - so if you can steal a march on other sellers in this way, you should really be in line for a happy New Year!