Any broker worth his salt will tell you that real estate runs in cycles.  It’s a well known fact that residential home sales peak in the summer months when families try to move while the kids are out of school.  The commercial cycle is a little more difficult to relate to since so many property types make up commercial sales including apartments, warehouses, shopping centers, offices, and undeveloped land.  Below is a chart for Loopnet.com’s traffic for the past 2+ years.  It shows that activity picks up in the Spring and Fall each year and declines in the summer and winter.  I have some of my own theories about why this is true, but I would like to hear what you think.  Please post your ideas in the comment section below.

Alternately, the graph below shows traffic on the largest residential real estate website, REALTOR.com. Traffic peaks at the end of the summer and bottoms out around the 1st of the year.