Selling your house is one of the more stressful times in a homeowners life. Especially in todays market, it can be extremely challenging to predict when you should list your house and what initial steps you should be taking to ensure your home is the most marketable. Thankfully, we have the real estate experts at Zillow to share their top tips and tricks for selling your home for the most money, and knowing when is the best time to buy. When it comes to increasing your homes resale value, theres a range of renovations and additions to choose from thatll basically guarantee your home will sell for more. However, those additions dont matter as much if youre listing your home during the least profitable time of year. The team at Zillow looked at the 35 largest metropolitan areas in the country and analyzed 1.6 million home sales in 2024 for which they had complete data. They found in their analysis that the best time to list your home for 2025 is the last two weeks of May. The data they gathered shows that sellers last year who listed their homes in the second half of May earned 1.6 percent more on the sale. That may not sound like much, but its actually a $5,600 boost on a typical U.S. home. Theres a trackable reason for this trend: Search activity tends to peak right before Memorial Day as buyers get serious about house hunting before their summer vacations and the start of a new school year, the analysis reports. List your home for sale in late spring, and you get the most eyeballs when shoppers are just starting to look. Related StoriesAmanda Pendleton, Zillows home trends expert, tells House Beautiful that this knowledge should simply be a starting point for people who have the flexibility to time the market. Not everyone has that luxury, and this data is also not meant to replace your local real estate agent. Pendleton emphasizes the need to work with an experienced agent because theyre going to have more insight into the dynamics of their particular neighborhood, and theyre going to have better timing advice based on what theyre seeing in terms of buyer demand and the number of listings available.When to List Your Home for Sale by RegionThough this data is true when looking nationwide, the best time to list your home to hopefully sell for the most money varies by region. There are a whole number of factors that affect this perfect pocket of time, from weather to school schedules to local economies. Phoenix, Arizona, for example, could see more demand in November because there are snowbirds who are looking to settle into a home before the winter, Pendleton says. San Diego, California, on the other hand, might see an earlier spring home shopping season because sellers dont have to worry about whether theres snow on the ground before they list their home for sale. You can find the full list of metropolitan areas in the Zillow report.The price premium percentage varies by region too. Again, while the nationwide price premium comes out at around a 1.6 percent increase, it can be way more or less depending on your area. According to the report, sellers in San Jose, California, who listed their home in the last two weeks of March 2024 were able to make 5.3 percent more than any other time of year, which is an additional $93,200 on a typical Silicon Valley house. On the other hand, during the peak season for Orlando, Florida, which is early May, homes sold for only 0.9 percent more.Spring 2025 Housing Market PredictionsThere is one big caveat: This data-based prediction doesnt guarantee that this years spring home shopping season will be the same as last years. In the past few years, mortgage rate fluctuations upended the traditional spring home shopping season, Orphe Divounguy, a senior economist at Zillow, says in the report. Buyers who are on the edge of qualifying for a loan jump in and out of the market depending on whats happening with rates. When rates fall, more buyers rush in, putting upward pressure on prices, which could happen at any time of year.While last year did mark a return to seasonal norms seen before the pandemic, with the highest premiums commanded in May, that doesnt necessarily mean this year will be the same. This is why Pendleton emphasizes the need to work with a local real estate agent who knows your area and its patterns best. Follow House Beautiful on Instagram and TikTok.