Housing Market Update: Homes Keep Selling Faster Than Ever—DOM Falls to 18 Days

Housing Market Update: Homes Keep Selling Faster Than Ever—Typical Home Sold in Just 18 Days

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Updated on October 26th, 2022

The average sale-to-list price ratio climbed to a record high 101.5% as 49% of homes sold above list price, also a record high.

Key housing market takeaways for 400+ U.S. metro areas:

Unless otherwise noted, this data covers the four-week period ending May 9.

Note: At this time last year, pandemic stay-at-home orders halted homebuying and selling, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable for select housing metrics. As such, we have broken this report into two sections: metrics for which a year-over-year comparison remains most relevant, and metrics for which it makes more sense to compare to the same period in 2019.

Metrics to compare to 2020:

Each of the metrics highlighted in the following list set a new housing record going back at least as far as 2012, when Redfin’s data began.

  • Home prices hit a record high of $350,750 and were up 22% year-over-year, also a record. Asking prices dipped slightly to $358,527.
  • A record low of just 18 days on market for homes that sold during the period, down 17 days from the same period in 2020.
  • A record high of 49% of homes sold for more than their list price, up 21 percentage points from the same period a year earlier.
  • A record-high 101.5% average sale-to-list price ratio, which measures how close homes are selling to their asking prices, up 2.9 percentage points year over year. This means that the average home sold for 1.5% more than its asking price.
  • A record-high 58% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market.
  • A record-high 45% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within one week of hitting the market.

Metrics to compare to 2019:

  • Pending home sales were up 25% from the same period in 2019.
  • New listings of homes for sale were down 9% from the same period in 2019. Compared to the four-week period ending April 11, new listings were up 4%, slightly larger than the 2% increase during the same period in 2019. Although new listings are still in short supply, they are following a typical seasonal pattern and showing slightly more growth than in 2019.
  • Active listings (the number of homes listed for sale at any point during the period) fell 48% from the same period in 2019.

Mortgage purchase applications increased 1% week over week (seasonally adjusted). For the week ending May 13, 30-year mortgage rates decreased slightly to 2.94%.

“The housing market has gone from one extreme—the onset of the pandemic—to another—the rush to buy primary and second homes while mortgage rates remain near historic lows,” said Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather. “Later this year the dust will settle to reveal the new normal for both the economy and the housing market. Many people are getting new clarity on what their personal new normal will be like, and oftentimes that new reality will involve a new home to match their new lifestyle. So I expect home sales to continue to grow for the foreseeable future, even as home price growth slows a bit. This home sale boom is nowhere close to over.”

Refer to our metrics definition page for explanations of all the metrics used in this report.

Home Sale Prices Up 22% From 2020

Asking Prices on New Listings Up 16% From 2020

Pending Sales Up 71% From 2020, Up 25% From 2019

New Listings of Homes Up 37% From 2020, Down 9% From 2019

Active Listings of Homes For Sale Down 37% From 2020, Down 48% From 2019

58% of Pending Sales Under Contract Within Two Weeks

45% of Pending Sales Under Contract Within One Week

Days on Market Fell to a Record Low of 18 Days

49% of Homes Sold Above List Price

Sale-to-List Price Ratio Approaches 102%

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Tim Ellis

Tim Ellis has been analyzing the real estate market since 2005, and worked at Redfin as a housing market analyst from 2010 through 2013 and again starting in 2018. In his free time, he runs the independently-operated Seattle-area real estate website Seattle Bubble, and produces the "Dispatches from the Multiverse" improvised comedy sci-fi podcast.

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