Timing the Phoenix Homes Market: When to Sell?

The Larger Phoenix market over all follows a singular trend of peak and dips across the year: that's the main pattern, the seasonal one, then there are others to think about, ones still bound to the seasons, though influenced by other powers. Overall the top for sales is the move from June to July and a dip in activity in December and a dip in sales in January. After the winter dip the sales pick up in Spring and move up rather quickly into June only to drop of swiftly in July and have a little last summer bump up in Aug with continued declines into Winter. That's vital to know. Sales change and so does inventory. Both need to be considered together and a purchaser/seller balance must be established. What is the inventory?

Different towns inside Metro Phoenix have their own ups and down within the bigger width of the trends.
For example in winter there's great inflow of people from out of state, from the less warm parts of the country then in summer when it’s more families moving in the summer vacation before college starts.

Each one of these segments has different demands from properties. Vacation homes regularly look different from large family houses and the demand changes. Vacation homes are way more popular in the colder times of the year and sell better although overall demand is down in the cool season.

Should you care? Maybe. You don't need to avoid putting a place on the market because of seasons. It wouldn't pay to pay the mortgage unnecessarily to pray and get 1 or 2 more thousand at a peak season, more crucial are other trends.