Listing Homes in Winter - Which Day to List a Home?

Our typical plan involves completing the staging and photography in advance (we choose a day and will postpone if the weather is not cooperating). An example that pops to mind is a house we have that I just put active yesterday. They have an amazing 33,000 gallon custom swimming pool outside. We knew this listing was "coming" for a few months so we were able to get all the exterior shots in the fall just before they closed up the pool. As a general practice, we put listings on the market on Tuesday's to give them time to populate out to as many websites as possible before the weekend. 

Joan,

The weather is adding a variable to the buy and sell equation. Listing a home is tough enough let alone planning around weather forecasts. Forecasts here are incorrect so often and would be impossible to plan around.

I've always listed a home the very next day. I like to get it out to the public and Realtors ASAP...

Joan: You will laugh but we are under a weather advisory tonight. There is the possibility of a light dusting about 50 miles north of us. ;-)

Joan Cox ....I agree ...I seem to be putting people off till the weather breaks ...Spring will be here before you know it!

Have a great night!

Joan,

 Wow all we have to worry about is the sun which in itself has been tricky lately here, can only imagine snow storms to factor in for pics! I hope you hae a great day!

Joan sounds like you are getting some of which we have been getting for the whole month of February.

Joan, our weather has been all over the place as well, we don't have snow, however, our rainy season is equally bad when trying to take pictures or show homes. I like to list Thu or Fri as most are out looking over the weekend.

Joan

Interesting question . . . . snow can really slow down a real estate market . . . . Working in New jersey for so many years . . . . buyers will come to see homes when it snowing and buy.

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

Joan, Good strategy to list the house based on the weather in winter. Thanks for sharing.

I don't subscribe to the idea that there's a better day to list the home.  I do believe in great pictures and description as well as the rest of the marketing to make a listing generate buyers.

Joan Cox ~ I don't like to list on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays. I like to list on Wednesdays and Thursdays, typically. But I've listed when needed on a Saturday afternoon and had three showings booked within an hour and an offer by Monday. I think one can argue a credible case for any number of days in the week.

This is a great question, Joan, and I see you have answers galore.  Nicely done!

Joan, We don't see any snow days in San Antonio, so I like to get my listings on the market by Thursdays or Fridays, so we can catch two weekends as a New Listing in our MLS.

I prefer to list Tuesadys or Wednesdays so we have everything online and uploaded for weekend showings.

I typically like to list on a Thursday giving me a few days to have my listing populate among the various sites I belong to. Finding a clear day for photos can take a bit of planning and looking at the weather forecasts.

Joan Cox

Thirty years of selling real estate and I never have thought of this. Thank you