Best time to sell
in Arizona
April was fastest in 2024, 2025 and 2026 so far. Type your address to see your range, free.
From Arizona county records · Veteran and first responder owned · No account needed
Bryce Henderson · real estate investor, veteran and paramedic
Year by year
Each row: the fastest month with its days, the month sellers got closest to asking, and the month with the most homes sold.
- 2024Fastest: April50 daysClosest to asking: May$7,100 underMost sales: May
- 2025Fastest: April58 daysClosest to asking: April$8,700 underMost sales: April
- 2026January to SeptemberFastest: April60 daysClosest to asking: May$9,000 underMost sales: April
Redfin Data Center monthly county files, the counties summed for the state. Days are the typical month's days from listing to an accepted offer (a sales-weighted average of the county medians). Dollars are our arithmetic on a typical $447,300 sale (Redfin's median sale price, last 12 months). 2026 runs January to September.
These are the area's months. Yours start with the report on your own home.
The five-year pattern
Month by month, 2021 to 2025
How far under asking a typical $447,300 sale closed in each calendar month, and the days from listing to an accepted offer. Averaged over these five years, August was fastest; year by year, April was the fastest month in 2024, 2025 and 2026 (January to September).
- January$6,800 under · 60 days
- February$4,900 under · 59 days
- March$3,000 under · 52 days
- April$1,700 under · 50 days
- Mayclosest to asking$1,300 under · 48 days
- June$2,400 under · 45 days
- July$3,900 under · 44 days
- Augustfastest$5,800 under · 43 days
- September$6,100 under · 47 days
- October$7,000 under · 52 days
- November$7,600 under · 56 days
- Decemberfurthest under, slowest$8,400 under · 63 days
Five full calendar years, 2021 to 2025, from Redfin's monthly county files. Dollars under asking are our arithmetic on the average sale-to-list figure for each month, on a typical $447,300 sale.
Every area
Each area's month closest to asking and fastest month over 2021 to 2025.
Each row: the month closest to asking, then the fastest month.
- Greater PhoenixMayAugust
- Pinal CountyMayJuly
- Tucson & Pima CountyMayAugust
- Prescott & Yavapai CountyMayMay
- Lake Havasu City, Kingman & Mohave CountyMaySeptember
- Yuma & Yuma CountyMayMarch
- Flagstaff & Coconino CountyMayJune
- Sierra Vista & Cochise CountyJuneJuly
- Show Low & Navajo CountyMayMay
- Payson & Gila CountyJuneMay
Questions, answered
What is the hardest month to sell a house in Arizona?
Over 2021 to 2025, December: homes took 63 days to an accepted offer, the slowest month, and sold about $8,400 under asking on a typical $447,300 sale, the furthest under of any month.
What is the best month to sell a house in Arizona?
For speed: April was the fastest month in 2024, 2025 and 2026 (January to September). For price, May: over 2021 to 2025, homes sold closest to asking in May, about $1,300 under on a typical $447,300 sale.
Is summer a slow time to sell in Arizona?
Not on average. Over 2021 to 2025, August was the fastest month, at 43 days. In 2025 it went the other way: August was the slowest month that year, at 72 days, and April the fastest.
Who's behind it
Our founder, Bryce Henderson, is a real estate investor, veteran and paramedic. Our team talks with Arizona homeowners about every way to sell and what each one would leave them. More about him and HERO Real Estate Investors at herorei.com.
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