Sentence examples for put off selling from inspiring English sources
You may want to hedge things, but you don't want to put off selling things because of taxes".
There is a pent-up pipeline of owners who have had to put off selling in recent years because of the economy.
They had put off selling their Greenpoint house as long as possible, finally betting the new house would be habitable before Christmas 2005.
Mr Dye and his wife Janice have held a stake - which at one stage represented 3.55% of the firm's share capital - in Border TV for about 10 years, but put off selling in any serious quantity because of the capital gains tax bill which would land on their mat, Mr Dye told Citywire.
The best-case scenario, as with stocks, is to put off selling an investment property, especially a rental that is breaking even or better, until you are in a lower income bracket (between careers, retired, etc).
It added that lack of stock was self-perpetuating as people were put off selling because there was little choice of homes to move to.
