After three straight monthly declines, existing-home sales slightly reversed course in September, but ongoing supply shortages and recent hurricanes muted overall activity and caused sales to fall back on an annual basis.
Existing-Home Sales data release for September 2017 is scheduled for Friday, October 20, 2017.
The NAR Public Affairs Office issues a news release on or near the 25th of each month with the latest existing-home sales figures. The releases include analysis and quotes by NAR's Chief Economist Lawrence Yun regarding the sales volume, prices, inventory and interest rates.
The Existing-Home Sales data measures sales and prices of existing single-family homes for the nation overall, and gives breakdowns for the West, Midwest, South, and Northeast regions of the country. These figures include condos and co-ops, in addition to single-family homes.
Next release: Existing-Home Sales data release for September 2017 is scheduled for Friday, October 20, 2017.
Existing Home Sales data are provided by NAR solely for use as a reference. No part of this data may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or redistributed in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without NAR's prior written consent for those who are not members of NAR.
Current sales rates, actual totals and median prices by month going back 12 months. Annual totals for three years. Includes all existing-home sales — single-family, condos and co-ops — rolled into monthly and annual totals. This file contains figures for the nation and four regions. It does not contain breakouts.
Existing-Home Sales Overview Chart for Printing (PDF: 29 KB)
Existing-Home Sales Overview Chart for Database Work (MS Excel: 40 KB)
Figures for the nation only — includes total existing-home sales, single-family sales and condo/co-op sales seasonally adjusted and actual. Months supply by category also included. Median and average sales prices for all existing-home sales, for single-family sales and for condo-co-op sales.
Total Sales With Breakouts of Single-family and Condo/Co-op for Printing (PDF: 23 KB)
Total Sales With Breakouts of Single-family and Condo/Co-op Spreadsheet for Database Work (MS Excel: 39 KB)
Current single-family existing-home sales rates, actual totals and median prices by month for 12 months. Annual totals for three years. Figures for the nation and four regions.
Single-Family Only for Printing (PDF: 28 KB)
Single-Family Only Spreadsheet for Database Work (MS Excel: 40 KB)
Current condo and co-op sales rates, actual totals and median prices by month for 12 months. Annual totals for three years. Figures for the nation and four regions.
Condo/Co-op Only for Printing (PDF: 27 KB)
Condo/Co-op Spreadsheet for Database Work (MS Excel: 40 KB)
Each year, the National Association of Realtors revises Seasonal Adjustment Factors and Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate data with the February release of revised (final) December data. Data affected by this Annual Seasonal Factor revision includes national and regional data for:
In the Annual Seasonal Factor revision, seasonally adjusted data and components affected by seasonally adjusted data for the past 3 years is revised (i.e. the 2017 release of revised December 2016 data will include revisions for 2014, 2015, and 2016).
Revision data files from last year are currently available:
Revised Historical Files (MS Excel: 56 KB)
Historical data can be purchased in the REALTOR® Store.
If you have questions about this data, please email them to data@realtors.org.
The information in this infographic is from September 2017 Existing-Home Sales data.
