Best Time to Sell a Home

Stephen FitzMaurice, Realtor licensed since 2003 writes an annual report on the best time to sell a home in the greater Portland metro area. Choosing the right month to sell can lead to an easy, pain-free experience with multiple offers. Choosing the wrong month can increase days on market and lead to tough buyer negotiations. Stephen is ready to give professional advice on selling your home in any market conditions, but if you can pick and choose the time your home goes on the market, it is best to read his local reports.

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Best Time of the Year to Sell a Home, 2023 Report

February 20, 2023

For many years I’ve been writing a report for the Portland real estate market that explains the best time to sell a home in our area. I do this annually because the seasonal impact on our real estate market is severe. Seasonal changes have an oversized impact on our housing market that seems muted in other locations around the country. Here in our metro, and likely in the surrounding Pacific Northwest, spring is the overwhelming best time of the year to sell and fall and winter is the worst. The difference between selling and buying in the spring vs. fall in the Portland market can average $100,000. The Seasons Can Impact Your Home Price by 10% or More The Portland...

Best Time of the Year to Sell a Home – 2022 Report

February 9, 2022

Seasonal real estate market trends in Portland have an enormous impact on a home buying and selling. Tell me what month of the year it is and I can tell you how buyers and sellers are experiencing our local real estate market, within the year’s larger trend. Licensed since 2003, I’ve seen the seasons trends in Portland repeat year after year. Whether it is a hot sellers market (it is) in Portland or a cold buyers market, the seasonal trends have their sway. Read our 2022 Portland real estate market forecast here. Best Time of the Year to Sell a Home in Portland The best overall time to sell a home in Portland is 2022 will be Feb. through May....

Best Month to Sell a Home in Portland in 2021

January 22, 2021

Every year I write an article on the best time to sell a home in Portland and a separate article on the best time to buy a home in Portland. (All of those articles are collected here.) And every year (except for 2020) a reader will notice that the Portland real estate market follows near-identical seasonal trends (with some variance each year) meaning in our metro there is an overall good season to sell a home and a different overall good season to buy a home. The best overall season each year to sell a home in Portland runs from mid-Jan. to early June. The best overall season to buy a home in Portland runs from late July through the...

Best Time to Sell a House in Portland – 2020 Update

January 24, 2020

In 2020, the Portland real estate market is split. Some parts of the Portland real estate market are cooling and are firmly considered a buyer’s market, while other segments of the Portland real estate market are still hot and considered a seller’s market. See our full 2020 Portland real estate market forecast here. In general, Portland condos downtown are in the buyer’s market category (your best buy in Portland right now) and many luxury homes in the Portland market (not all areas, but most) are in the buyer’s market category. But anything close to the city under 450K in price is most likely firmly in a seller’s market. All of the above will continue for the entire 2020 year, but...

Best Time to Sell a House in the Portland Market 2019 Edition

February 1, 2019

The Portland real estate market is officially cooling after an incredible five year rise from 2012 to 2017. A few small Portland housing market segments in 2017 decreased in price, and then the majority of higher-end homes and condos decreased in price in 2018. In 2019 the luxury and condo real estate market will continue to suffer while more and more segments of the market go flat. More affordable homes under 400K or 500K will still likely appreciation in 2019. See our final 2019 Portland housing market forecast here. The best time of a year to sell a home stays relatively consistent in the Portland housing market. Since being licensed in 2003, I’ve noticed and tracked the same trends year...

Best Time to Sell a House in the Portland Market – 2018 Edition

February 2, 2018

The Portland real estate market has been improving since 2012. This will still be true in 2018. The predictions for the Portland housing market in 2018 call for around a 5% price increase. (See my in-depth 2018 housing forecast here.) Regardless of whether or not the Portland housing market is moving up or down, there is a best time of the year to sell and a best time to buy. As you might imagine those times are always the opposite of one another. My team helps someone buy or sell a home, on average, 4x a week in the Portland metro area. We have our finger on the Portland real estate market’s pulse. Keep reading to get our month by...

Best Time to Sell a House in the Portland Market – 2017 Edition

February 14, 2017

The Portland metro real estate market has been improving across the board since 2012. I’ve been selling homes in the Portland area since 2003 and have noticed the same seasonal trends, year after year. There is a best time to sell a home, and there is a best time to buy a home in the Portland real estate market each year. The best time to sell is always the opposite of the best time to buy and vice versa. So, if you are selling and buying at the same time in the same area, it is hard to get much advantage (though you could get some, if you timed it just right). Just to give you an idea of the...

Best Time to Sell a House in the Portland Market, 2016 Edition

February 18, 2016

The Portland real estate market has been improving across the board since 2012. And since being licensed in 2003 I have witnessed consistent – predictable – seasonal changes to the market. The weather, holidays, yard appeal, and the school calendar all have a powerful impact on home selling expectations. In 2015 I sold 57 homes in their first weekend on market and 98 homes in less than 30 days on market, giving me a lot of personal data to go on, also I subscribe to the only unbiased official Portland real estate market report (and you can too for free here). Are you ready? I’m going to explain the advantages and disadvantages of going on the market in any month...

Best time to sell a house in the Portland real estate market.

April 9, 2014

There is a lot of debate in the Portland real estate industry surrounding the best time of the year to sell a Portland home. What I’ve found listening to the debate is that most Portland real estate agents are talking about it based on their experience. Experience can be useful, but when you’re considering broad questions, a bigger data picture is much more useful than one agent’s experience. So I will share my experience as a top Portland real estate agent, but I will also use the official Portland real estate market data as obtained from RMLS. (You can also sign up here to get it for free.) Big data picture for the Portland real estate market. Take a look...