Best Time To Sell Your Home in 2006

By now, we've all heard about people who have been buying and selling homes the way many Americans were trading stocks in the dot-com boom. Dramatic price increases, low interest rates, new mortgage products and (in some places) condo-building frenzies have provided substantial windfalls for some homeowners and real estate investors.

In general, there hasn't been a "bad" time to sell a home over the past few years--unless you count the fact that in hot areas, waiting an extra six or nine months could mean squeezing an extra 10%, 20% or even more out of a property.