>>According to a lot of realtors I spoke with at the time, Jan 15th onwards starts a good selling season because its a good time to position a move at the end of the school year.<<
Yep. I used to be in real estate. November and December figures can be a bit missleading because it is the official slow season in real estate. January is when things start ramping up.
This is one reason I said last fall that come the end of April I believe we will know if this thing bottomed out and is coming back, of if we are in the beginning stages of a serious recession.
I agree with you. My realtor (a great guy) said the best months in real estate were from Jan thru mid May, then Sept and Oct.
I had put my house on the market in early Nov and he warned me that it would slow down significantly from the week of Thanksgiving thru mid-January.
It did slow down a bit but I had a lot of people thru even during the time he thought it would be slow. A lot of them turned out to be tire kickers.