It's a long-held belief that spring is the best time to enter the housing market. But why? There's a lot more to it than you might expect. We take a look to see if more houses are sold in the spring and try to determine just why that is. 

Nationally, the time to buy a home is spring, typically viewed as starting in March and ending in May or early June. The convenient answer is that it's simply because the weather is better, homes are unburied from beneath the snow, and it's more pleasant to...