Exclusive | Real estate brokers face faltering sales contracts because their clients dont like the neighbors political lawn signs

This heated election season is really bringing the house down.Local real estate brokers tell The Post that this divided campaign cycle is bad for business.Home buyers are so turned off by seeing political signs of the candidates they despise in their new areas — with some even trying to get out of a contract altogether when they discover a neighbor’s lawn sign promoting an opponent.

Meanwhile, some industry professionals are even sworn to political purity tests before sellers give them the blessing to rep their listing.“This election is very loud and heated, more than I’ve ever seen,” said Long Island-based broker Tammy Babadzhanov.“It’s bigger signs, bigger flags — it’s a lot.”Buyers who don’t want to move into neighborhoods where they see political signs — those for candidates with whom they disagree — is an increasing problem, she said of politically charged stretches of Long Island, such as Levittown, Sea Cliff and Roslyn.“I was just showing a house and the buyers saw Harris signs.

They said, ‘Nope — there are Democrats — I don’t want to be here,’” the Douglas Elliman broker recalled when a neighbor’s sign was spotted.“We’ll look somewhere else,” they fumed.Still, it’s not like the agent can tell politically loud neighbors to put a sock in it just because she’s trying to sell their next door neighbor’s house.

“It’s free speech, it’s their property,” Babadzhanov said.“They can do what they want on their property.”“I can’t tell them, ‘Your neighbor is trying to sell their house — please take down your signs.”During a recent drive through Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to show townhouses to a buyer, Harris signs abounded.

It was then Babadzhanov realized that buyers are making decisions based on quick drive-bys and ruling out certain districts altogether.“’This is not the neighborhood for me — I’m moving elsewhere,’” Babadzhanov recalled the buyer thundering.But sometimes agents just ca...