Everyone lists their house with the intention of selling it in no time. Most sellers are on a race against the clock, whether it’s to get to a new job, or to move into a new property on which they’ve already closed. Unfortunately, very few houses sell as quick as we need them to.

Home sales are at an all-time high for the first time in the last 10 years, according to The Mortgage Reports. That’s great news. But it still doesn’t mean that houses are selling at exceptional speed. A buyer’s market means people have more choices, can spend more time looking at different options, or even negotiating more over the details of the contract.

While many organizations have approximation formulas for their regions as to how long the average house stays on the market, the truth there is no one exact equation to determine how long it will take to sell your house. Luck can play a role, but numbers given on different real estate websites vary from 36 days to as high as 69 days-and that’s just an average.