Move by Christmas? Yes, it can be done
Does the idea of waking up on Christmas Day surrounded by cardboard boxes, desperately rummaging for a spoon to stir your gravy, appeal to you? No? We thought not
If you're hoping to be in a new home in time for pigs in blankets and the King's speech, now’s the moment to get moving, metaphorically and literally.
We’re already sliding toward the point where even the most cooperative solicitors would have started winding down for their festive break before you exchange contracts. And once that window closes, you'll be unwrapping your John Lewis crockery... in February.
But here's the good news: if the stars align, the paperwork behaves, and you choose the right agent (hello!), there’s still a fighting chance of being in by Christmas.
Especially when that agent is Cooke Curtis & Co, Cambridge’s most supportive, hard-working, and frankly lovely estate agent (Not our words, the words of our Google reviews).
Our loveliness is er, lovely, but it also gets results. Those lovely quantifiable results. We also happen to sell more properties than any other single-office agent in the area. Our awards cabinet is groaning, our egos throbbing. Our team is buzzing.
And back to your timeline? Still possible? Just about!
So, unless you fancy Christmas morning surrounded by bubble wrap and a mystery box labelled "kitchen-ish", give us a call. We’ll help you move with the speed of a husband who has forgotten to buy his wife a present at ten to five on Christmas Eve.
Now, the important part - How to Actually Move by Christmas..
How to Actually Move by Christmas
(Because wanting it isn’t quite enough)
So, you've read our last blog and you thought, “Yes, I would like to place the star on top of our non-drop Nordmann Spruce in the bay window of a new home this year as we look into each other's eyes and toast the festive season, thank you very much.” But how do you actually make that happen?
Okay, so we know non-drop is pure fantasy and rather than toasting the season you are more likely to be wrestling with a tangle of lights, but we can still get you in a new place to do this if you follow some basic steps...
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1. You need to list. Your house, not what you want Father Christmas to bring.
Photographs don’t take themselves (at least not yet). However, we do have some very talented people and a wide-angle lens that does most of the work.) If you want to be making last-minute dashes to purchase forgotten presents from a new postcode, your property needs to be live in the next couple of weeks. Ideally, as mad as it sounds, before the end of August. No pressure.
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2. Choose your agent wisely.
This isn’t the time for a hobbyist with a camera phone and a Rightmove login. You need someone who actually sells properties. Lots of them. We sell more than any other single-office agent in Cambridge. We are the John Lewis Christmas advert of Christmas adverts if you like.
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3. Get your paperwork ready now.
Sellers' forms. ID checks. Planning permissions. Utility info. The things that solicitors will eventually nag you for, beat them to it. Admittedly, this is very dull, but having your ducks (or elves, to labour this festive metaphor) in a row is incredibly powerful. A well-prepared seller is like mince pies to the big man. One would assume. He is actually very likely to be quite tired of them.
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4. Instruct a solicitor early.
Not your brother-in-law who still hasn’t finished his own house move from 2021. A responsive, proactive, human solicitor who knows that "exchange" isn’t just a concept in crypto, it's a real, tangible thing. And in the property game, an incredibly important thing to the point of being an essential thing.
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5. Price it right.
Now is not the time to test the market with make believe figures. Aim for serious interest within the first fortnight. A good offer early on gives you actual time to move. A bad one in October feels a bit like a metaphorical fake tree. One of those tinsel ones from the 80s, you were embarrassed for your rich friends to see.
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6. Stay realistic, but hopeful.
Imagine your twelve-year-old self desperately hoping for a Sony Sport Walkman. You might be lucky, but Sanyo is a reputable brand hailing from the same part of the world. Anyway, if you do your bit, and your buyer does theirs, and solicitors stay awake, and nothing unexpected happens (always a big if), you can be moved in time to fight over the remote by December 25th. Ah, I still miss Only Fools and Horses Christmas Specials. This time next year...
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In summary:
You bring the motivation, we’ll bring the action plan (and the Advocaat if you are lucky). Want a free, honest valuation and a chat about your chances of pulling off a Christmas move?
Click here, or call us, be a Mr Darcy, not a Daniel Cleaver (who I hear you cry? Exactly).