By Derek Silva, CEPF® | Smart Asset
Selling a house is a major decision that demands careful consideration. After all, securing more money from selling your home gives you more capital to invest with your financial advisor. Your location, for one, plays a major factor. Houses in some places will sell immediately, while others stay on the market for months. Home values in your area may also mean that it’s easier or more difficult to sell your home for a profit. We considered those factors and more to create this list of the best cities to sell a house.
To rank America’s best cities to sell a house, we examined data on five factors. We looked specifically at the five-year change in home values, how long the average house spent on the market, the percentage of homes sold for a loss, closing costs and the number of real estate offices per 1,000 residents. You can learn more about our data sources and how we created the final rankings in the Data and Methodology section below.
