The calendar-printing business won’t admit it, but now that everyone knows how to google “today’s date” (or even just call out any calendar questions in Alexa’s direction), they’ve had a rough time lately. A clue to just how bad things have gotten is that when you click on the latest “Worldwide Wall Calendar Industry Report,” you just get a Global Wall Calendar report from 2014 (and that’s not even available anymore).

But for tradition-oriented St. Cloud residents who still do stay on top of noteworthy events by pinning up a calendar, this week is showing a number of annual occurrences. Their connection with St. Cloud homes for sale runs the gamut from distant to undeniable, in ascending order. Real estate calendar checkers will have barely caught their breath after Sunday’s Daylight Savings clock re-reckoning before—

Wednesday: St. Cloud Saint Patrick’s Day arrives. The connection with real estate may seem obscure, but you wouldn’t know that if you are a Realtor^®. For months, we’ve been bombarded by promotional vendor pitches urging us to send out postcards and posters featuring cartoons of four-leaf clovers, wee leprechauns, rainbows, pots o’ gold, etc. They feature slogans like “You don’t need to have the ‘Luck of the Irish’ to sell your home” printed in green, Celtic-looking typefaces.

Saturday: the Equinox arrives. This is the astronomical moment when the tilt of the Earth is zero relative to the Sun—when the Sun rises due east and sets due west. Just about everyone in St. Cloud has already commented on the longer daylight hours (despite Sunday’s Daylight Savings skipped hour confused matters a bit). The daylight will continue to lengthen until the summer solstice (the longest day) in June. For real estate, more daylight means more useful home showing hours, which leads directly to—

Also on Saturday: the arrival of Spring! Forget the Equinox: it will be Spring—and the closest thing to an official start of real estate’s Spring-Summer busy season. The industry is always a little vague about exactly when the traditional busy season kicks off, probably because it varies from year to year. But it’s similar to when spring cleaning season arrives—as the days grow longer and warmer, people begin to start thinking and doing predictable things.

For real estate, that means listing homes for sale or deciding it’s high time to set out on some serious house-hunting. If you have been zeroing in on a real estate initiative of your own, you needn’t wait for Saturday—just give me a call!

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