The Data Drop · September 2026
This month’s housing numbers, ready to quote.
The shareable numbers from HavenScore’s latest monthly refresh — the biggest city-level price movers, buyer-seller balance shifts, and national medians. Every stat copies with its source and scope attached. Quote freely with attribution to HavenScore (havenscore.app).
Data as of September 2026 · refreshed monthly
Biggest city-level price movers
Year-over-year change in Zillow home values, averaged across each city’s scored ZIPs. Cities need at least 3 scored ZIPs and 50,000+ residents to appear — smaller markets are too noisy for a headline number.
Rising fastest
- Greenwich, CT +13.43% YoY · median $2,544,443 · 5 ZIPs
- Newport Beach, CA +12.04% YoY · median $4,505,865 · 6 ZIPs
- San Francisco, CA +10.88% YoY · median $1,393,432 · 26 ZIPs
- Rockford, IL +10.68% YoY · median $174,272 · 8 ZIPs
- Oak Park, IL +9.25% YoY · median $474,897 · 3 ZIPs
Falling fastest
- Camden, NJ -9.78% YoY · median $128,861 · 4 ZIPs
- Sherman, TX -7.31% YoY · median $289,300 · 3 ZIPs
- Detroit, MI -7.28% YoY · median $87,362 · 26 ZIPs
- Lehigh Acres, FL -7.05% YoY · median $284,725 · 6 ZIPs
- Punta Gorda, FL -6.79% YoY · median $343,373 · 4 ZIPs
Buyer-seller balance shifts
HavenScore’s buyer-seller balance runs from -100 (buyer-favorable) to +100 (seller-favorable). Shifts compare the two most recent monthly snapshots, averaged across each city’s scored ZIPs; the same city floors apply.
- National 2 → 2 · August 2026 to September 2026
Toward buyers
- Wilson, NC 28 pts toward buyers · now -46 · 3 ZIPs
- Waldorf, MD 24 pts toward buyers · now -29 · 3 ZIPs
- Jackson, MS 22 pts toward buyers · now -32 · 9 ZIPs
- Dothan, AL 21 pts toward buyers · now -28 · 3 ZIPs
- Alexandria, LA 20 pts toward buyers · now -40 · 3 ZIPs
Toward sellers
- Victoria, TX 20 pts toward sellers · now -15 · 4 ZIPs
- Lakewood, CA 20 pts toward sellers · now 11 · 3 ZIPs
- Torrance, CA 19 pts toward sellers · now 0 · 5 ZIPs
- Burbank, CA 18 pts toward sellers · now 1 · 5 ZIPs
- Sumter, SC 17 pts toward sellers · now -24 · 3 ZIPs
National medians
ZIP-weighted medians across 26,000+ scored ZIPs — the middle ZIP, not the middle household. Sources: Zillow (values, rents with HUD fallback), Realtor.com (days on market), via the HavenScore pipeline.
Median home value
$289,778
Median rent
$1,792
Median price growth (YoY)
+2.64%
Median days on market
55 days
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