The best day to buy a home

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Feb 192019
 

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By G. Steven Bray

Do know which day is the best day to buy a home? Well, according to ATTOM Data Solutions, a national property data warehouse, it’s the day after Christmas. ATTOM studied closings for the last 5 years and determined that buyers who closed on Dec 26th realized the greatest discount from market value.

The purchase price for buyers on that day averaged 1.3% below what ATTOM considered the market value. To determine market value, it used a computer-based valuation model, which can have laughably inaccurate results. However, ATTOM analyzed more than 18 million transactions, so you’d expect the laughable outliers would average out.

But why that day? It might be because in order to close on Dec 26, a buyer would be submitting an offer around Thanksgiving. Those sellers who wanted to sell before the end of the year probably were getting a little more motivated to cut a deal.

Interestingly, ATTOM’s analysis showed only 10 days during the year when buyers had the upper hand getting a below market price. That’s probably a testament to the strength of the recent seller’s market. Seven of those days occurred in Dec with one day in each of Feb, Oct, and Nov.