Every year around Labor Day, a quiet assumption settles over the Miami Valley: the real estate season is over, see you in spring. And every year, the buyers and sellers who ignore that assumption tend to come out ahead. At Irongate Inc., REALTORS®, some of the best-fit transactions our agents see close between September and November, when the market thins out but does not shut down. With inventory across the Dayton region at its healthiest level in years, this fall is setting up to be especially interesting. Here is why.
Summer brings volume: the Dayton REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service recorded 1,418 sales in June alone. Autumn brings intent. The buyers still touring homes in October are not browsing for fun. They are relocating for jobs, responding to life changes, or determined to be settled before winter. Sellers who list in fall tend to have equally concrete reasons.
That mutual seriousness changes the tex...