The housing market,
made easier to read.
See what prices, inventory, and market pace are doing—and what those changes actually mean.
United States snapshot
Latest month compared with the same month last year
Choice vs. competition
Inventory and time on market together show how much leverage buyers and sellers may have.
The quick read:
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Monthly observations, not a forecast. Metro locations are approximate. Map outline: CC0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Three signals worth watching
No jargon—just the relationship between the numbers.
Choice & leverage
Price direction
Demand flow
Pending listings show homes moving toward a sale. Compare them with new supply to spot demand strengthening or cooling.
The complete market dashboard
The midpoint asking price: half of listings are above it and half are below it.
The mean asking price, which can be pulled upward by a smaller number of luxury listings.
The typical asking price for each square foot of listed living space.
The midpoint number of days a listing spends on the market before closing, pending, or going off-market.
Single-family homes and condos actively listed during the month, excluding pending listings.
Listings newly added to the market during the month.
Listings under contract during the month, where a pending definition is available.
Listings that had an asking-price reduction during the month.
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Source: Realtor.com® Economic Research, Housing Inventory Core Metrics, retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. ListingAI calculations. Data through .
Monthly, not seasonally adjusted data. FRED and Realtor.com may revise observations. Local markets use metropolitan statistical areas, so they may not match city boundaries. Methodology changes were incorporated into the Realtor.com series in late 2021 and 2022; historical observations were subsequently updated for consistency.