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How long to sell in Prescott &
Yavapai County

Homes here took 69 days from listing to an accepted offer in September 2026. April was fastest in 2025 and 2026 so far, June in 2024.

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Bryce Henderson · real estate investor, veteran and paramedic · Monthly figures through September 2026

Prescott & Yavapai County, September 2026

69 days
from listing to an accepted offer, September 2026
About 2 in 10
homes went under contract within two weeks of listing
About 2 in 10
listings cut their price, September 2026
$300 a month
property tax and insurance while the home is listed
  • The typical month of the last 12Redfin, listing to accepted offer70 days
  • Accepted offer to closing, nationallythe date you and the buyer write into the contract; National Association of REALTORS, September 202630 days

Days, the two-week count and the last 12 months: Redfin Data Center, September 2026. Price cuts: Realtor.com, September 2026. Tax and insurance: Census median taxes paid and U.S. Treasury premium data for 2022, brought to today with the Bureau of Labor Statistics price index for homeowners insurance premiums. The national closing time is a side note and is never added to our days.

The last 12 months

  • Oct '2569 days
  • Nov '2570 days
  • Dec '2572 days
  • Jan '2690 days
  • Feb '2687 days
  • Mar '2670 days
  • Apr '2657 days
  • May '2662 days
  • Jun '2671 days
  • Jul '2663 days
  • Aug '2676 days
  • Sep '2669 days

These are the area's days. Yours start with the report on your own home.

The best month to list

Each row: the fastest month with its days, the month sellers got closest to asking, and the month with the most homes sold.

  • 2024Fastest: June52 daysClosest to asking: May$10,100 underMost sales: April
  • 2025Fastest: April58 daysClosest to asking: March$9,500 underMost sales: October
  • 2026January to SeptemberFastest: April57 daysClosest to asking: June$10,400 underMost sales: May

Month by month, 2021 to 2025

How far under asking a typical $508,700 sale closed in each calendar month, and the days from listing to an accepted offer. Averaged over these five years, May was fastest; year by year, April was the fastest month in 2025 and 2026 (January to September), and June in 2024.

  • January$9,700 under · 75 days
  • Februaryslowest$8,400 under · 81 days
  • March$6,600 under · 68 days
  • April$5,600 under · 58 days
  • Mayclosest to asking, fastest$5,200 under · 48 days
  • June$7,000 under · 51 days
  • July$7,900 under · 49 days
  • August$9,500 under · 50 days
  • September$10,000 under · 53 days
  • October$11,000 under · 56 days
  • November$11,500 under · 66 days
  • Decemberfurthest under$12,500 under · 69 days

Redfin Data Center monthly county files, 2021 to 2025 for the five-year pattern and the last three years for the table. Days are the typical month's days from listing to an accepted offer. Dollars are our arithmetic on a typical $508,700 sale (Redfin's median sale price, last 12 months).

The cost of waiting

What the time to sell did to the price

How far under the final asking price the typical Arizona home sold, by the days from listing to sale, in dollars on a $416,700 home. Arizona as a whole; our count has no Prescott & Yavapai County split yet.

  • Within 30 daysfull asking
  • 31 to 60 days$3,000 under
  • 61 to 90 days$6,100 under
  • 91 to 180 days$7,900 under
  • 181 days or more$12,100 under

About 2 in 10 homes sold above asking within 30 days of listing; about 1 in 10 after 180 days.

Our count of 85,301 Arizona sales listed on Realtor.com and sold October 27, 2025 to October 26, 2026: the days from the list date to the sale date, and the median sale price against the final asking price in each band, in dollars on the typical home.

Each month listed also costs $300 in property tax and insurance on a typical $496,900 home here, before the mortgage payment and utilities.

Fastest to slowest

Days from listing to an accepted offer in September 2026, fastest first, with the typical month of the last 12 beside it, since one month can swing.

Each row: the latest month, then the typical month of the last 12.

Redfin Data Center, September 2026: Redfin's published figures for each area.

What the contract sets

The time from an accepted offer to closing is not a fixed number of days. Two documents decide most of it.

The closing date is a blank

In the Arizona Association of REALTORS purchase contract, the close of escrow date is written in by the buyer and seller, and the sale closes when the deed is recorded with the county recorder. The contract sets no typical number of days.

It gives the buyer an inspection period of ten days after acceptance unless the parties write a different number, and loan approval without conditions is due no later than three days before the closing date.

Residential Resale Real Estate Purchase Contract, updated November 2025 (sample form), sections 1, 2 and 6a, read in full at aaronline.com (the publisher's sample form, Internet Archive capture of February 8, 2026) on October 20, 2026.

Three business days' notice

For a mortgage loan, the lender must make sure the buyer receives the Closing Disclosure, the form with the loan's final terms and costs, at least three business days before the buyer signs the loan. A financed closing cannot happen sooner than that.

A cash sale has no lender and no Closing Disclosure, so that three-day wait does not apply to it.

12 CFR 1026.19(f)(1)(ii)(A), read in full at ecfr.gov on October 20, 2026.

Questions, answered

How long does it take to sell a house in Prescott & Yavapai County?

Homes in Prescott and Yavapai County took 69 days from listing to an accepted offer in September 2026 (Redfin); in the typical month of the last 12 it was 70 days. The closing date after that is the one you and the buyer write into the contract.

How long from an accepted offer to closing?

As long as the contract says: the buyer and seller write the closing date in. Nationally, contracts typically closed in 30 days (National Association of REALTORS, September 2026). No Arizona figure is published, so we do not add it to our days.

What is the best month to list a house in Prescott and Yavapai County?

For speed: April was the fastest month in 2025 and 2026 (January to September), and June in 2024. For price, May: over 2021 to 2025, homes here sold closest to asking in May, about $5,200 under on a typical $508,700 sale (Redfin).

Do homes sell for less the longer they sit?

In our count of 85,301 Arizona sales listed on Realtor.com and sold October 27, 2025 to October 26, 2026, the typical home that sold within 30 days of listing got its full final asking price, and the typical home that took 181 days or more from listing to sale went for about $12,100 under its final asking price, in dollars on a typical $416,700 home.

Who's behind it

Bryce Henderson

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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