When someone asks me how long a house takes to sell, I would rather answer with my own file than with a generality. So here is what my records show.
Across the period covering August 2020 to July 2026, I have 82 closed sales with a recorded days on market figure. The median was 19 days. The fastest was 3 days. The slowest was 229 days. Thirty-two of those 82 sales went under contract within 14 days. Twelve took 60 days or more.
The median is the number I lean on when I am asked to set expectations, because it is not pulled around by the extremes. Half of these sales sat longer than 19 days and half sat less. But I want to put the spread in front of you too, because the spread is the honest part. A 3 day sale and a 229 day sale are both in this same set of 82. If I only quoted the median you would walk away thinking every listing behaves the same way, and mine did not.
The group that took 60 days or more matters as much to me as the fast ones. Twelve out of 82 is not a rounding error. When I sit at a kitchen table and talk through timing, that number is why I do not tell anyone their house will sell in two weeks. Some of mine did. Some of mine took a season. I cannot tell you in advance which one a given house will be, and I do not think anyone can.
A few things this data does not contain, and I would rather say so than let you assume. It does not include prices, so nothing here speaks to what these houses sold for or how sale prices compared to asking. It does not break out property type, size or location, so I am not able to tell you whether the faster sales clustered in any particular category. It counts only sales where a days on market figure was recorded, so any closing of mine without that field is not in the 82. It also does not distinguish between years inside the period, so I am not showing you whether one stretch of these six years ran faster or slower than another. I am not going to guess at any of that here.
Eighty-two is a real sample but it is still one agent's book of business over roughly six years. Treat it as a record of what happened in my transactions, not as a measurement of any market.
If you want to talk through how your own situation compares, I am happy to walk through these numbers with you in more detail and show you where a specific sale of mine landed in the range.
This covers only my own 82 closed sales that had a days on market figure recorded, contains no price, property type or location detail, and is not a measure of any wider market or an indication of what any future sale will do.
Figures are from John Tiburzi's own closed transactions, data courtesy of OneKey MLS as distributed by MLS GRID, covering August 2020 to July 2026.