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JANEESE JACKSON: 503-709-0802 or jj@janeesejackson.com
“Walking in a Winter Wonderland” – Dean Martin
As a follow up to Tuesday’s blog regarding why would anyone try to sell a home or buy a home at this time of year, Blackwater Consulting pulled a year’s worth of data on three quarters of a million homes listed across the country and analyzed sales statistics by season. Here’s what we found:
- Homes listed in winter sell faster: 46 days in winter vs. 55 days in summer
- Homes listed in winter are more likely to sell: 59.2% sell in winter vs. 53.1% sell in summer
- Homes listed in winter sell closest to their original price: a 2.7% drop from the final price in winter vs. a 5.2% drop from the final price in summer, worth more than $7,000 on a $300,000 home
Homes listed in winter sell best.
Yup, you read that right: Overall, homes listed in winter sell best. 5.8% more homes listed in winter eventually sell (compared to the overall percentage of homes listed throughout the year), and they sell 1.4 percentage points closer to their original list price than the median—that’s $4,900 on a $350,000 home.
Spring wins in one category: Speed. Homes listed in spring sell the fastest, sitting on the market for 15% less time than the median. Winter comes in second in this category though, at six percent below the median, while homes listed in summer and fall both sell slower than the median (12% and 16%, respectively).
This is interesting and surprising information for me (a 25-year veteran of the biz)! Why do you think most sellers are afraid to list their homes in winter? I guess it’s not always auspicious to “wait for better times.”
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