Content Club - Should you sell before you buy, or buy before you sell?
This week's content tackles a question almost every potential seller wrestles with at some point: should they sell before they buy, or buy before they sell?
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It builds on our previous "how to buy a home when you have one to sell" piece, but where that one walked through the mechanics and the options, this one focuses on the decision-making framework. It's written to help fence-sitting owners get unstuck.
The timing is deliberate. With the market more balanced in a lot of areas, we're seeing owners hold off on listing because they've talked themselves into believing it's not a good time. This article meets that hesitation head-on and reframes it. The buy-or-sell-first decision is about their situation, not the market, and a balanced market actually carries some real advantages for anyone moving within it. The tone stays positive throughout, with a clear reminder that good homes still sell well when they're presented and positioned properly.
A few ways to put it to work:
- Send it to your full database in this week's newsletter to position yourself as the calm, useful voice while owners are weighing things up.
- Better still, send it as a direct, personal email to your past appraisals and any potential sellers sitting in your "thinking about it" group, since this is exactly the audience it was written for.
- And it makes a strong letterbox drop for your farming area (scroll down for the print-ready template).
As always, treat it like you wrote it yourself and feel free to add a line about your local market if you have a recent sale worth mentioning.
Have an epic week!
Andrew Duncan
AgentMonday.com
Should you sell before you buy, or buy before you sell?
It's one of the most common questions I get asked, and it's the one that quietly stops a lot of people from making a move at all. They want to upgrade, downsize, or shift to a new area, but they get stuck on the chicken-and-egg of it. Do I sell my home first and risk having nowhere to go? Or do I buy first and risk being caught with two homes on my hands?
Right now, with the market more balanced than it's been for a while, I'm hearing it even more often. People are reluctant to list because they're not sure it's a good time to be selling. So before we go any further, let me put your mind at rest on that point. The decision of whether to buy or sell first has far less to do with where the market is sitting, and a lot more to do with your own situation and what you're trying to achieve. Let me walk you through it...
1. Start with your goal, not the market
The first mistake people make is trying to read the market before they've worked out what they actually want. Get clear on the move first. Are you chasing more space, a better location, a lower mortgage, or a lifestyle change? Once you know what you're moving towards and why, the buy-or-sell-first question gets a lot easier to answer, because you can weigh each path against the outcome you're after rather than against a headline.
The full article plus the social media version and letterbox drop template are available to Agent Monday members.
Content marketing works through repetition. Useful information, sent to your database, posted on social media, dropped in letterboxes - consistently over time - is one of the most effective ways to build a pipeline of future listings.
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