{"id":12804,"date":"2025-12-15T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/?p=12804"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:16:01","slug":"is-the-boxing-day-bounce-real-or-just-a-load-of-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/is-the-boxing-day-bounce-real-or-just-a-load-of-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Boxing Day Bounce Real, or Just a Load of Old *******?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What the Boxing Day Bounce is<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The Boxing Day Bounce is the time of the year when listings of homes for sale \u2013 and online viewings for them \u2013 are supposed to surge above and beyond any other the day.<\/p>\n

According to Rightmove the 2024 Boxing Day Bounce smashed all records.*<\/p>\n

Their stats showed that enquiries about homes for sale were 20% higher than a year before.<\/p>\n

Their site saw the highest number of Boxing Day visits in history, surpassing the previous record set in 2021.<\/p>\n

Is the Boxing Day Bounce for real?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s be frank. A lot of people find themselves at a loose end on Boxing Day. Looking at homes for sale online is a way of passing some time.<\/p>\n

Boxing Day is a big day for browsing the Internet in any case. People jump on there to look for a holiday, a new job, a new sofa \u2026. or a cure for the dog\u2019s diarrhoea.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s only to be expected that hits on property websites will surge too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more than likely that a lot of people browsing property sites at holiday times are just window shopping. (Or having a nosey at number 22\u2019s tastes in the bedroom department.) They\u2019re not all serious buyers.<\/p>\n

Call us cynical, but the Boxing Day Bounce stinks of PR puffery more than the Christmas Stilton in the back of the fridge stinks of stink. It\u2019s a bit of a ploy to get people to think about buying and selling at what can be a slow time of the year.<\/p>\n

Even Rightmove\u2019s own figures point that way.<\/p>\n

Their figures suggest February and March, closely followed by April and January, are the best months to list a home for sale based on the likelihood it will complete successfully. **<\/p>\n

So what do we think? (Honest advice)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

If you\u2019re going to join in the Boxing Day Bounce feel free.<\/p>\n

We hope you have fun.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t take it too seriously.<\/p>\n

In our honest opinion a well presented home that\u2019s correctly priced will find a buyer whatever time of the year it goes on the market.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t feel pressurised by the PR spin.<\/p>\n

Do what\u2019s right for you. Not for the PR gurus.<\/p>\n

If you are actually thinking of selling and you\u2019d like an accurate market valuation on your property, whatever the time of year, give us a call.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d love to sell your home for you. But we want to sell it when it suits you not when it suits us.<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you know someone who might find this article interesting please share it with them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

* <\/strong>Rightmove<\/a><\/p>\n

** Rightmove<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What the Boxing Day Bounce is The Boxing Day Bounce is the time of the year when listings of homes for sale \u2013 and online viewings for them \u2013 are supposed to surge above and beyond any other the day. According to Rightmove the 2024 Boxing Day Bounce smashed all records.* Their stats showed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[21,25,22],"class_list":["post-12804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-home-advice-and-guidance","category-personal-advice-from-our-team","tag-christmas","tag-jerry","tag-seasonal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12806,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions\/12806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}