Category: Market Moves

Redfin estimated that August left Miami with 138.3% more home sellers than buyers and Houston with 130.9%, the second- and third-widest gaps among the metros the brokerage ranked. Nationally, Redfin counted 1,534,918 sellers against 972,300 buyers, a gap of 57.9% that widened from 52.1% in July. Both Sun Belt metros sit on the brokerage’s list…

Sellers outnumbered buyers by 58% nationally in August, the largest gap Redfin has recorded, with an estimated 1,534,918 sellers active in the market against roughly 972,300 buyers, the company reported. Nashville led every metro Redfin measured, with 139% more sellers than buyers, the largest local gap in the company’s records dating back to 2013. Redfin…

Pending home sales fell 3.5% from the prior week to 299,126, the lowest level Redfin has recorded in nearly three years, the company reported on September 17. The count is also down 5.4% from a year earlier, covering the four weeks ending September 13. Seattle posted the steepest metro-level decline Redfin tracked, with pending sales…

Realtor.com has named Sept. 27 to Oct. 3 the best week of 2026 to buy a home, with listing prices running 3.5% below their seasonal peak and roughly $14,000 lower than the peak price on a median-priced home, the company said in a September 14 release. Active listings during the week are 13.3% above the…

While most of the country saw home values climb over the past year, Dallas moved in the opposite direction. Redfin’s home price index shows the metro posting the steepest year-over-year decline of any market it tracks, a standout in a national data set otherwise dominated by gains. For a Dallas-area homeowner, a falling value cuts…

Builder confidence varies sharply by region this fall, and nowhere is it weaker than in the West. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index put the West’s three-month moving average at 28 in September, the lowest score of any of the four Census regions the survey tracks. States across the West, including…

Building permits are the paperwork stage of construction, filed before a shovel ever touches the ground, which makes August’s numbers a look further into the future than the starts figures released the same day. The Census Bureau’s count shows fewer permits issued in August than in July, but meaningfully more than were issued in August…

Buyers who say they are ready to move are showing up in far greater numbers than the homes available to buy, according to new Zillow research, even though actual home sales barely budged over the same period. The gap between engaged shoppers and listings widened enough that Zillow now counts nearly five ready buyers for…

October isn’t a single moment in the housing calendar, according to Redfin, but a rolling window that opens at different points in different cities. The brokerage identified 16 major metros where sellers’ price cuts and available inventory line up most favorably for buyers sometime this month, breaking the group into early-, mid- and late-October windows…

National home values grew faster over the past year than at any point in the previous twelve months, according to Redfin’s latest price index, and the acceleration was not evenly spread. San Francisco alone posted a year-over-year gain more than three times the national rate, pulling the overall number up even as many other metros…