This is one of my special pets from my Arizona Republic column, a discussion of when to list your home for sale:
Strategically, what is the best time to list your home for sale?
My answer is as soon as possible after midnight on Thursday morning. Why? Because your house will be available to all the Realtors planning their weekend showings, but all day Thursday, the listing will show zero days on market. All day Friday, it will be one day on market. All day Saturday – the most important day of the real- estate week – your home will show only two days on market.
Obviously, the fewer days on market, the better chance the home will attract a full-price offer. But consider that even if your house does not sell until the following Saturday, it will still show only nine days on market, still benefiting from the psychological advantage of a single-digit number.
My absolute favorite question is “Why?” We have a detailed reason for everything we do, and this is a sweet example of that kind of thinking.
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jf.sellsius says:
DOM does create a stigma of sorts.
Fair?
In New Jersey, and other states, if you re-list the DOM starts at zero again.
September 26, 2006 — 10:38 am