Released: November 13, 2011

Follow these five tips for selling your home in winter

Source: Dave Carpenter, Associated Press

Just your luck — you have to sell your home in winter, the slowest and dreariest sales season of all. But cheer up. You can use staging, the reduced competition and some seasonal opportunities to your advantage. "You wouldn't necessarily choose to sell your home in winter," says Katie Severance, a broker for ReMax in Upper Montclair, N.J. "But there are certain extra steps you can take to really help your chances." Many homeowners pull their houses off the market by year's end if they haven't sold. That's understandable. The period from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day is the slowest time of year for home shopping as people focus on family and holidays.

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