I get asked the following question from time to time:
Winston what is the best time of the year to buy or invest in real estate?
I have been in real estate sales and finance since 1995 and I would usually say that towards the end of the year was the best time of the year to purchase a property. Why do I say this?
- Less competition
- Less competition
- Less competition
I never had the hard stats to prove it but you could just get a feel for it based on market conditions. Towards the end of the year I would get less activity from:
- advertisements
- listings
- referrals
- etc etc
I got to thinking and so I came across this section in Google called Google Trends. Google Trends lets you see what people are searching for over a selected period of time. I found an interesting trend for the search for “real estate” in the United States.
Joshua Dorkin
