October 20, 2016
Lakewood Sentinel 3
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As Winter Approaches, Should Sellers Wait for Spring to Put Homes on the Market?
Last week I published a chart of the Golden The short answer is “no.” Winter has proven to be a great time for listing a home, with Real Estate listings which sold in the last six months for above the listing price. less competition from other listings REAL ESTATE Most of them sold in less than a but still an abundance of buyers. TODAY week. That only happens when I tell clients that December is you price a home at market value, now the “hottest” month when it rather than at a wished-for price, comes to selling homes in Denver thereby attracting multiple offers. or Jefferson County. It’s shown by Recognizing that only one buyer the chart I created (right) using the won the bidding war for each of MLS, www.recolorado.com. those homes, that means all the On that chart you can see that in other buyers are still looking. December 2014 and 2015, there Even if they get discouraged and were a nearly equal number of stop looking actively, you know active and sold listings. This was also true of the late winter months By JIM SMITH, they’ll keep an eye on listings, and if your home matches what they’re except for January. In the summer, Realtor® looking for, they’ll ask to see it. there were far more active listings That’s why it’s smart to put your home on than sold listings, meaning that if you are one of the sellers choosing to put your home on the market in the winter months. But beware the market in the winter, you have less com- of overpricing your home. I recommend using petition for buyers who are looking year round. my personal strategy of pricing your home at I no longer think of summer as the “selling that sweet spot — low enough to attract multiseason.” Rather it is the “listing season,” ple offers quickly — and then working with the because that’s when sellers think it’s best to agents submitting offers to get the highest list a home. But the smart sellers list their price. As I’ve written before, this is no different homes in the winter. I know, it sounds coun- than how an auction works. If you’ve been to an auction, you know that the auctioneer terintuitive. But consider the following.
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starts the bidding at a low price to get buyers engaged, and then lets buyers drop out as the price rises due to competition. The same process works for selling a home. We know, be-
cause we do this all the time, as demonstrated by that chart in last week’s column. (If you missed last week’s column, you can read it at www.JimSmithColumns.com.)
locations far from an electrical provider. Brandon showed us pictures of one such installation near the tar sands of northern Alberta. Many utilities are also developing an interest in battery storage. Utilities are constantly creating more electricity than is needed at any given time. With a large bank of batteries, a utility could run its generating stations at a much lower level, letting the batteries absorb any unused
electricity while also satisfying surges in demand as they arise. Even if the battery is not a perfect fit for me right now, with the rising costs of electricity from the grid, and the falling costs of solar + batteries, there are more and more opportunities where batteries make sense. It was exciting to see the future of energy storage at Iron Edison. More info is at www.IronEdison.com.
Is Home Battery Storage Right for You? What I Learned Visiting a Lakewood Company
Last Saturday I joined fellow members of the Denver Electric Vehicle Council on a tour of Iron Edison, a Lakewood company which manufactures lithium iron (distinct from lithium ion) batteries for home storage of electricity. Such batteries are most appropriate for offgrid properties, such as in the mountains, but they could make sense in certain applications for homes which do have access to the electrical grid, especially if that grid offers off-peak pricing, but also if you need to maintain electrical service during a black-out. Brandon Williams, co-owner with his wife of Iron Edison, is shown at right explaining the circuitry that makes his batteries work. He told our group that he has two politically opposite clients — right-wing survivalists preparing to survive a social meltdown and left-wing environmentalists who want to reduce or eliminate the
use of fossil fuels. Both sectors utilize solar photovoltaic arrays, capturing electricity from the sun and storing it in large batteries. Another big client base for Iron Edison is the cell phone industry, which needs to install cell towers or small generating stations in remote
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