Revolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingRevolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingThe gap between the best month to list and the worst one is 50 days - well over a month of your life.
Measured across 110,026 Colorado sales, grouped by the month each home was listed rather than the month it closed, and deliberately using older listings so that the slow ones are all counted. The section below explains why that matters more than it sounds like it should.
| Listed in | Homes | Typical time to sell | Sold above asking | Of final asking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8,804 | 56 days | 25.9% | 100% |
| February | 9,939 | 53 days | 28.6% | 100% |
| March | 12,799 | 52 days | 28.4% | 100% |
| April | 14,254 | 53 days | 27.7% | 100% |
| May | 15,132 | 57 days | 24.8% | 100% |
| June | 11,212 | 48 days | 27.5% | 100% |
| July | 7,476 | 46 days | 27.5% | 100% |
| August | 4,543 | 96 days | 20.6% | 99% |
| September | 6,685 | 80 days | 18.7% | 99% |
| October | 8,880 | 70 days | 20.0% | 100% |
| November | 6,127 | 72 days | 20.6% | 100% |
| December | 4,175 | 69 days | 20.9% | 100% |
Grouping by the month a home was listed has a trap in it, and it is worth explaining because it is the reason most seasonality charts are wrong. If you take the homes that sold recently and sort them by the month they were listed, the recent months can only contain homes that sold fast - the slow ones have not closed yet - so the last few months always look brilliant.
So this table does not use recent listings at all. It uses every Colorado home listed across the twenty-four months from 2023-06 to 2025-05, and reads what happened to it whenever that was. Every one of those listings has had at least fifteen months to sell, against a statewide median of about two, so the slow ones are all in here too. Twenty-four months rather than eighteen or twenty-one so that each month of the year gets exactly the same number of turns - otherwise July and August carry half the evidence of April and read as a cliff.
A note on what "days" counts here. It is calendar days from the day the listing agreement was signed to the day the sale closed, so it includes the weeks a home spends under contract after an offer is accepted, not just the time it sat waiting for one. We publish that measure rather than a shorter "days on market" figure for a plain reason: our MLS feed carries no days-on-market value on any of these sales - not one of the 110,026 - so it is the only duration we can actually measure. It is also the one a seller lives through: signature to settlement.
The other half of the seasonal picture, from the last twelve complete months: when sales actually complete, and at what price.
| Month closed | Homes sold | Median sold price | Of final asking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 5,800 | $567,500 | 99% |
| Oct 2025 | 5,704 | $574,000 | 99% |
| Nov 2025 | 4,511 | $560,000 | 99% |
| Dec 2025 | 5,150 | $550,000 | 99% |
| Jan 2026 | 3,242 | $545,000 | 99% |
| Feb 2026 | 4,407 | $552,500 | 99% |
| Mar 2026 | 5,966 | $574,925 | 100% |
| Apr 2026 | 6,484 | $575,000 | 100% |
| May 2026 | 6,592 | $590,000 | 100% |
| Jun 2026 | 6,647 | $590,000 | 100% |
| Jul 2026 | 6,122 | $580,000 | 100% |
| Aug 2026 | 5,117 | $570,000 | 99% |
On the evidence, late winter through early summer. Listings taken in July sold in a median 46 days against 96 days for August - measured across 110,026 Colorado sales, grouped by the month the home was listed.
August. Homes listed then took a median 96 days to close, 50 days longer than July. A late-summer listing that does not sell quickly ends up sitting through the autumn slowdown.
The difference in price is far smaller than the difference in speed. Across every listing month the median sale landed within a point or two of asking; what changes with the season is how long it takes and how often a seller ends up beating their price, not the price itself.
May is the busiest month for new listings in this data, and December the quietest. More competition in spring is real - it is just outweighed by there being far more buyers looking at the same time.
A month of the calendar is worth a few weeks. Price and condition are worth far more, and unlike the calendar you control both. Ask us what your home needs before you pick a date.
Get your numbersEvery figure on this page is recalculated from the live MLS feed at the moment the page loads - it is not a monthly snapshot. Sales figures cover residential sales only, over the last twelve complete calendar months; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort every median. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.
The listing-month table is the one figure in this family measured on a different window from everything else on the site - twenty-four whole months of listings ending fifteen months ago, so that every listing in it has resolved. The closing-month table uses the standard last twelve complete months.