When is the best time to sell your home? It’s not necessarily the spring.

It’s often thought that the best time of year to put a house on the market is in the spring, because people are more in the mood to be out shopping once the unpleasant winter weather is over. But there are other factors at play.One way to measure how much better the spring season — specifically, April through June — is for sellers is the median number of days a house is on the market. In 2024, it dropped from 38 days in February to 22 days in June before starting to rise again, according to Na

David Holtzman
May 15, 2025

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