10-Year High Profits for Sellers

Homeowners are profiting when selling—and their average earnings haven’t been this high since 2007.
At the close of 2017, the average home seller gained $54,000, or a 29.7 percent return on investment (ROI), in the transaction, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ recently released Year-End and Q4 2017 U.S. Home Sales Report. Contradictory, however, is their length of stay: 8.18 years—the longest since 2000.
“It’s the most profitable time to sell a home in more