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December 6, 2011

Should I Wait Until Spring to List My Home? – San Francisco Edition

Over on the national blog, we just posted another big analysis of hundreds of thousands of listings and sales. Here are the numbers for San Francisco (SF & San Mateo Counties), where winter is still a winning time to list your home for a quick sale, a better chance of selling, and a better price:

What season should I list my home?

Posted by Tim Ellis on December 6, 2011 9:30 AM | del.icio.us | Digg

  • San Francisco Allen
    Winter is a great season for the house market even it's cold.
  • Nathan Peterson
    This may be true, but I crunched some Case-Shiller numbers for the SF Bay Area, showing that home prices are indeed lower in the first 3 months of the year - this is no myth. And the fact that CS uses a 3 month moving average makes it look less extreme than it actually is.
    Time frame: Jan 1987-Dec 2010
    Values given as a percentage of the overall average, Jan, Feb, etc.

    Overall Market:
    97.2% 97.2% 97.7% 98.9% 100.0% 100.9% 101.4% 101.6% 101.7% 101.5% 101.2% 100.8%

    Bottom Tier:
    98.2% 98.1% 98.2% 98.9% 99.7% 100.5% 101.0% 101.2% 101.4% 101.1% 100.9% 100.6%

    Middle:
    97.2% 97.1% 97.7% 98.8% 100.0% 101.0% 101.4% 101.6% 101.6% 101.5% 101.3% 100.9%

    High:
    96.7% 96.6% 97.4% 98.9% 100.3% 101.2% 101.7% 101.8% 101.8% 101.6% 101.3% 100.8%
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