Home searching runs on a weekly rhythm. Nationally, Sunday gets the most searches for homes for sale and Thursday the fewest, and Sunday beat Thursday in 98% of the 102 weeks we measured. Sunday is the top day in 31 of 48 states.
Stagingmate ResearchWithin each full Sunday-to-Saturday week, each day's share of that week's searches, which removes seasonal and long-term trends. Shares averaged by weekday across all weeks. Each window pulled twice and averaged because Google Trends samples its data.
Search interest measures buyer attention, not showings or offers. Daily state data is noisier than national data, especially in small states, so state lifts vary more.
more buyer search on Sunday than on Thursday, nationally.
states where Sunday is the busiest search day.
of a week's buyer search happens Saturday to Monday.
Lift of each state's busiest day over its quietest day, Jan to Aug 2026. Alaska and Wyoming left blank: too few daily searches to measure.
| Hawaii | 50.9% | Monday | Saturday |
| Montana | 42.4% | Monday | Friday |
| North Dakota | 33.2% | Monday | Friday |
| Vermont | 32.9% | Monday | Thursday |
| Idaho | 30.4% | Monday | Thursday |
| Oklahoma | 29.8% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Connecticut | 27.7% | Monday | Thursday |
| North Carolina | 27.6% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| New Jersey | 27% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Florida | 26.6% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Rhode Island | 26.6% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| Texas | 26.6% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Virginia | 26.5% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| Delaware | 26% | Monday | Wednesday |
| Maryland | 25.9% | Sunday | Friday |
| Colorado | 25.8% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Nevada | 24.9% | Sunday | Friday |
| New Mexico | 24.9% | Monday | Friday |
| Georgia | 24.7% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| West Virginia | 24.6% | Sunday | Friday |
| South Carolina | 24.5% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| Nebraska | 24.1% | Sunday | Wednesday |
| Utah | 24% | Monday | Wednesday |
| Arizona | 23.7% | Sunday | Wednesday |
| Mississippi | 23.6% | Monday | Friday |
| Tennessee | 23.5% | Monday | Wednesday |
| California | 23.2% | Sunday | Friday |
| Arkansas | 22.4% | Monday | Wednesday |
| Michigan | 22.1% | Monday | Thursday |
| Indiana | 21.9% | Sunday | Friday |
| Louisiana | 21.8% | Sunday | Friday |
| New Hampshire | 21.3% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| Alabama | 21.1% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Missouri | 21% | Monday | Friday |
| Pennsylvania | 20.6% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Massachusetts | 20.2% | Sunday | Friday |
| Maine | 20.1% | Sunday | Thursday |
| New York | 19.5% | Saturday | Thursday |
| Ohio | 19.4% | Sunday | Friday |
| Wisconsin | 19.3% | Monday | Wednesday |
| Illinois | 19.1% | Sunday | Wednesday |
| Oregon | 19.1% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| South Dakota | 18.8% | Monday | Saturday |
| Washington | 18.7% | Sunday | Tuesday |
| Kansas | 18.3% | Sunday | Friday |
| Kentucky | 17.5% | Sunday | Friday |
| Minnesota | 17.4% | Sunday | Thursday |
| Iowa | 13.9% | Sunday | Friday |
more searches for homes for sale on Sunday than on Thursday.
A perfectly even week would put 14.3% of searches on each day. Weekend browsing spills into Monday, then search settles to its low through the middle of the week.
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Stagingmate Research (2026). Buyers search 24% more on Sunday than on Thursday. https://stagingmate.com/research/best-day-of-the-week-to-list-a-house
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Buyer search is highest Sunday and lowest Thursday. Going live by Thursday or Friday puts a listing in front of the weekend surge.