Sell ​​your accommodation: 37 days in Dunkirk, 131 in Tourcoing… and at home?

Sellers getting their ear less to negotiate, the sales times for housing has been decreasing since January.

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The purchase of more spacious accommodation generally requires reselling the first well acquired. How long can you hope to give it? The answer to this question is crucial because it can make it possible to avoid contracting a ready-relating, whose reimbursement is sometimes a source of anxiety. Good news, the real estate advertisement portal and the best aging estimates observe a “”shortening of sales times»» Ancient housing in the 11 largest cities in France since the start of the year. The average deadline between the publication of a real estate ad and its withdrawal, after the signing of a sales compromise, fell by a week for January. A trend that has accelerated in April, the average sales period falling by four days on this month. And it fell back in no less than 32 of the 51 main cities in France.

The site Bien’ii also observes a seven -day drop in the dissemination time of announcements since the end of 2024. “The (real estate purchase) projects are materialized faster due to more favorable financial conditions and, therefore, increased demand”he explains. An improvement in financial conditions which results in mortgage rates reached around 3%, and by slightly less demanding sellers on the price front. Today, “As soon as we are at the price, we sell”ensures Capital Guillaume Martinaud, president of the Cooperative of Real estate agencies Orpi.

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An average sale period of two and a half months

The proof in Nîmes, where the average sales period has dropped by 18 days since the start of the year, at 77 days, in parallel with a 4% drop in prices. In Colmar, where prices have decreased by almost 3% since January, less than 50 days are now necessary to sell a property, against 75 at the start of the year. In Nantes, thanks to prices down 3.3%, it is only necessary to count 81 days for a property to find a taker, against 93 in January. “”Even Nice, usually against the current main cities in France, is concerned by this decrease in sales times ”with a decrease of four days in a month and 11 days since the start of the year, notes Seloger. It must be said that the City of Angels has seen its prices fall by 2% since January, like Aix-en-Provence, where sales times have decreased by 16 days.

“Sellers agree to negotiate”which was not the case at the start of the real estate crisis, which has lasted for two and a half years, adds Yann Jehanno, boss of the Laforêt network. Negotiation margins that the expert estimated at 4.72% of the price announced on average. Still, “In general, you still have to count about two and a half months for a home to change hands”relativizes Seloger. It is in Dunkirk and Calais that the accommodation sends the fastest, with an average period of 37 days, against … 131 days in Tourcoing.