OK -- given a tiny data set (7 home sales) this **could** be a data anomaly.  But I think it's still worth noting...

Last year, of all of the (seven) buyers who contracted to buy homes over $500,000 in the City of Harrisonburg -- they all did so between February 1 and June 30. 

Maybe a lot of these buyers have kids and were looking to transition homes during the summer?

Of note -- since that last sale (that went under contract in June 2018) there have not been any additional buyers who have contracted to buy homes over $500K.

Again -- this is a rather small portion of the market -- but it seems that high end buyers in the City are mostly (almost all!?) contracting on their homes exclusively during the Spring and Summer.