When is the best month to sell a house?

The best month to sell a house, metro by metro

Across the 764 metro areas where we have enough history to say, June is the month homes sell for the most in 182 of them — about 24%. Widen it to the top three months (May, June, July) and you cover 52% of the country.

June

Most common best month

182 of 764 metros

764

Metros measured

with 3 years of history

17%

Typical gap, best to worst month

of a normal year's price

There is no single answer that holds everywhere, which is why "spring" is the answer you usually get. In 182 of 764 metro areas the highest sale prices land in June. In the other 582 they do not.

Those are closing months. A sale usually closes a month or two after the home goes under contract, so listing a few weeks ahead of the peak month is what actually catches it.

How much the calendar is worth also varies. In a typical metro the gap between the best month and the worst is about 17% of a normal year's price. In the metros at the top of the table below it is several times that, and in the flattest markets it is close to nothing — there, timing the calendar is not where the money is.

Method: for each metro we group three years of sales by the month the window closes, compare each month to that same year's average, then average those ratios across years. Comparing each year to itself cancels out the underlying price trend and leaves the seasonal shape. A month counts only if we saw it at least twice, and a metro counts only if at least eight months of the year are covered.

Source: Redfin's published market data, through May 2026. Neighborhood Numbers is an independent data publisher and is not affiliated with Redfin.

Month	Metros where prices peak
January	21
February	17
March	32
April	37
May	104
June	182
July	111
August	93
September	70
October	48
November	30
December	19

How many of the metros we measured peak in each month.

Where the calendar matters most

The metros with the widest gap between their best and worst month. If you are selling in one of these, a few weeks of timing is worth real money.

Metro area	Best month	Softest month	Gap
Hailey, ID	February	June	83%
Mineral Wells, TX	March	November	64%
Roanoke Rapids, NC	December	April	63%
Easton, MD	January	February	58%
Brenham, TX	May	April	55%
Coffeyville, KS	June	March	53%
Van Wert, OH	May	January	51%
Glenwood Springs, CO	January	July	51%
McAlester, OK	June	February	50%
Terre Haute, IN	September	January	50%
Galesburg, IL	June	March	49%
Parkersburg, WV	May	March	48%
Houghton, MI	June	January	48%
Athens, OH	November	January	47%
Albany, GA	October	April	47%
Lewistown, PA	May	January	47%
Ada, OK	June	March	47%
Kirksville, MO	January	February	47%
Freeport, IL	May	February	47%
Borger, TX	December	February	46%
Jackson, WY	August	May	46%
Grand Rapids, MN	August	February	45%
Milledgeville, GA	August	December	45%
Blytheville, AR	April	June	44%
Ogdensburg, NY	July	February	44%
Great Bend, KS	April	May	44%
Alexander City, AL	June	December	44%
Dyersburg, TN	September	April	44%
Norfolk, NE	September	January	43%
Murray, KY	March	January	42%

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Source: Redfin's published market data, through May 2026. Neighborhood Numbers is an independent data publisher and is not affiliated with Redfin.