Top 10 best and worst dates to sell a home

Sellers who listed their homes for sale in May, February, and April have consistently garnered premiums above market valuations. That’s according to ATTOM’s analysis of more than 59 million single-family residence (SFR) and condo sales from 2011 to 2023.

Here are the top 10 dates where sellers are seeing the highest premiums above market prices:

1. May 27 – 16.2%
2. February 25 – 15.9%
3. February 17 – 15.8%
4. February 15 – 15.7%
5. February 22 – 15.5%
6. May 25 – 15.4%
7. March 30 – 15.2%
8. March 25 – 15.1%
9. February 28 – 15.0%
10. February 24 – 15.0%

Our take

One of our goals here at The Playbook is to acquaint you with data and tools to help you maximize your prospects – and profits – in real estate. As we mentioned in a previous edition, one of the benefits of real estate investing is asset appreciation. You might decide to buy and hold a property for, say, five years and then sell it. But clearly, there’s a benefit to being extremely targeted about when you make that sale. That’s where this report from ATTOM comes in. It identifies the days sellers get the highest AND the lowest premiums above market valuations for single-family homes and condos, so use it to full effect.