The Results are in. Popular 2018 Home Sales by Color

I've been keeping this kind of useless statistic since 2011. Taking all the sold houses in Sudbury from 1/1/2018 to 12/16/2018 I sort them by color and then create a pie chart to show what color represents how much of the market. Here it is. Commentary below.
For 2018, much like last year, the dominant colors are gray and tan, the earth colors. Then the brights, white and yellow. And last, the RGB colors. It's interesting this year the mix of RGB has really expanded in the blue and green tones. White seems to be shrinking in popularity.

And my annual dig at lazy agents, 30% of the listing agents didn't even bother to put in the color of the house in their listings. Really people? Did you ever even walk into the house?

Yellow, this year in particular, seems to be popular on capes. They do look really nice when the lawns are lush and green and then nice against the white snow in winter.

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