U.S. listings: 1,161,615 active in Sep 2026

U.S. active listings stood at 1,161,615 in September 2026, according to Realtor.com.

Active listings count the homes for sale on Realtor.com during the month, leaving out listings already marked as pending sale. It counts homes on offer, not sales.

U.S. active listings in September 2026 were 5.4% more than the 1,102,006 of September 2025, according to Realtor.com.

The HavenScore balance for the U.S. read −2 in September 2026, in our Balanced band, on a scale from −100 (buyers) to +100 (sellers).

The HavenScore balance reads signals such as inventory, time on market and the share of listings with a price cut on one scale, from buyers at one end to sellers at the other. A reading below zero favors buyers, and one above zero favors sellers.

Each balance reading sits in one of five bands, named from the buyers' end of the scale to the sellers' end: Buyer's market, Leaning buyer, Balanced, Leaning seller and Seller's market.

From August 2026 to September 2026, the U.S. HavenScore balance shifted 1 point toward buyers.

Time on market and price cuts

Realtor.com put the median time on the market for U.S. listings at 61 days in September 2026.

Days on market is the median number of days a Realtor.com listing spends on the market, from the day it is listed until it closes or is withdrawn.

Realtor.com counted a price cut on 20.8% of U.S. listings in September 2026.

The share of listings with a price cut is the part of Realtor.com's active listings where sellers cut the asking price at least once during the month.

The longer view

The U.S. HavenScore balance in September 2026 sat 4 points closer to the buyers' end than a year earlier, in September 2025.

A year-earlier comparison sets a month beside the same month a year before, so the seasonal rhythm of listings and sales is not mistaken for a change in the market.

Realtor.com's count of 1,161,615 U.S. active listings in September 2026 was the most since October 2019.

By region

Among the four Census regions, the highest average HavenScore balance in September 2026 was in the Northeast: +8 across its 5,053 scored ZIPs, weighted by population, in our Balanced band.

The regions are the four Census regions, which group the states and the District of Columbia as the Census Bureau defines them. Each region's figures cover the scored ZIP codes in its states.

Regional and U.S. figures in the table are averages across scored ZIP codes, weighted by population, so each ZIP counts in proportion to its residents. They are not national series, so the U.S. row can differ from a median or a national figure for the same month.

In the region table, days on market is each ZIP's own median, averaged across the area's scored ZIPs, so it can differ from the national median for the same month.

How to read these figures

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