Existing Home Sales in the United States increased to 4100 Thousand in October from 4050 Thousand in September of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Existing Home Sales - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The number of U.S. home sales in the United States declined in 2024, after soaring in 2021. A total of four million transactions of existing homes, including single-family, condo, and co-ops, were completed in 2024, down from 6.12 million in 2021. According to the forecast, the housing market is forecast to head for recovery in 2025, despite transaction volumes expected to remain below the long-term average. Why have home sales declined? The housing boom during the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that being a homeowner is still an integral part of the American dream. Nevertheless, sentiment declined in the second half of 2022 and Americans across all generations agreed that the time was not right to buy a home. A combination of factors has led to house prices rocketing and making homeownership unaffordable for the average buyer. A survey among owners and renters found that the high home prices and unfavorable economic conditions were the two main barriers to making a home purchase. People who would like to purchase their own home need to save up a deposit, have a good credit score, and a steady and sufficient income to be approved for a mortgage. In 2022, mortgage rates experienced the most aggressive increase in history, making the total cost of homeownership substantially higher. Are U.S. home prices expected to fall? The median sales price of existing homes stood at 413,000 U.S. dollars in 2024 and was forecast to increase slightly until 2026. The development of the S&P/Case Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index shows that home prices experienced seven consecutive months of decline between June 2022 and January 2023, but this trend reversed in the following months. Despite mild fluctuations throughout the year, home prices in many metros are forecast to continue to grow, albeit at a much slower rate.

New Home Sales in the United States increased to 800 Thousand units in August from 664 Thousand units in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States New Home Sales - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

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Graph and download economic data for Existing Home Sales (EXHOSLUSM495S) from Oct 2024 to Oct 2025 about headline figure, sales, housing, and USA.

The number of home sales in the United States peaked in 2021 at almost ************* after steadily rising since 2018. Nevertheless, the market contracted in the following year, with transaction volumes falling to ***********. Home sales remained muted in 2024, with a mild increase expected in 2025 and 2026. A major factor driving this trend is the unprecedented increase in mortgage interest rates due to high inflation. How have U.S. home prices developed over time? The average sales price of new homes has also been rising since 2011. Buyer confidence seems to have recovered after the property crash, which has increased demand for homes and also the prices sellers are demanding for homes. At the same time, the affordability of U.S. homes has decreased. Both the number of existing and newly built homes sold has declined since the housing market boom during the coronavirus pandemic. Challenges in housing supply The number of housing units in the U.S. rose steadily between 1975 and 2005 but has remained fairly stable since then. Construction increased notably in the 1990s and early 2000s, with the number of construction starts steadily rising, before plummeting amid the infamous housing market crash. Housing starts slowly started to pick up in 2011, mirroring the economic recovery. In 2022, the supply of newly built homes plummeted again, as supply chain challenges following the COVID-19 pandemic and tariffs on essential construction materials such as steel and lumber led to prices soaring.

📝 Dataset Description: This synthetic dataset contains 3,000 residential property listings modeled after real U.S. house sales data (in a Zillow-style format). It is designed for use in real estate analysis, machine learning, data visualization, and web scraping practice.

Each row represents a unique property and includes 16 key features commonly used by real estate agents, investors, and analysts. The data spans multiple U.S. states and cities, with realistic values for price, square footage, bedroom/bathroom count, property type, and more.

✅ Included Fields: Price – Listing price (in USD)

Address, City, State, Zipcode – U.S. formatted property location

Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Area (Sqft) – Core home specs

Lot Size, Year Built, Days on Market

Property Type, MLS ID, Listing Agent, Status

Listing URL – Mock Zillow-style property link

⚙️ Use Cases: Exploratory data analysis (EDA)

Regression/classification model training

Feature engineering and preprocessing

Real estate dashboards and web app mockups

Practice with BeautifulSoup, Pandas, or Power BI

The number of new houses sold in the United States took a big hit during the financial crisis, dropping from a high of around *** million houses sold in 2005 to a low of *** thousand homes sold in 2011 – around a ** percent decrease. While the economy has largely recovered since the crisis, consumers remained hesitant when it comes to buying homes. In 2020, demand for housing surged and house sales volumes spiked to *******. Housing construction remains suppressed One of the main challenges in the U.S. housing market is the insufficient number of new homes built. During the financial crisis, construction slowed dramatically, and has still struggled to recover. Construction costs, on the other hand, have risen notably, making homeownership increasingly pricier. House prices on the rise Unsurprisingly, the median sales price of new homes has risen substantially. In 2024, the U.S. Case Shiller National Home Price Index, reached *** index points, suggesting the price of a home tripled since 2000, the base year of the index.

Graph and download economic data for Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States (MSPUS) from Q1 1963 to Q2 2025 about sales, median, housing, and USA.

View monthly updates and historical trends for US New Single Family Houses Sold. from United States. Source: Census Bureau. Track economic data with YChar…

View monthly updates and historical trends for US Existing Home Median Sales Price. from United States. Source: National Association of Realtors. Track ec…

The number of existing homes for sale in the United States decreased overall since 2013, while the number of newly built homes for sale followed the opposite trend. As of May 2025, there were **** million existing and ******* newly built housing units for sale. Unlike new homes, the existing housing inventory typically increased in the second and third quarters of the year when the housing market is more active.

The number of pending home sales in the U.S. declined dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2021. In March 2024, the pending home sales index stood at **** index points, just *** index points above its lowest value recorded in April 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The slowdown in buying activity was triggered by the aggressive mortgage interest rates hikes in response to the rising inflation. As it takes around **** to eight weeks to finalize a home sale in the United States, the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) index is seen as a measure of consumer sentiment on buying a house and essentially provides an early outlook on what the actual sales of existing homes in the country might potentially look like.

The U.S. housing inventory has declined notably over the past years, despite a slight increase in 2024. In January 2025, the number of single-family homes for sale in the United States stood at about *******, higher than the same period in the past two years. The figure reflects the number of active unique single-family home listings available for purchase in that month. This rise in inventory is a result of a sluggish housing market with declining home transactions.

The average home in the U.S. sold for several percent below its asking price in December 2022, as a result of the housing market slowing. Just a few months before that, In the second quarter of 2022, the so-called sale-to-list price ratio went above ***. This reflected the high housing demand and the need of prospective home buyers to bid above the asking price. Housing demand - as measured in pending home sales - went up, as mortgage rates were historically low and plummeted once rates were increased.

The dataset originates from the book "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists" by Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce, and Peter Gedeck.

Context:

You work for a real estate agency in the King County area, USA, and the company aims to develop a prediction model to estimate house prices based on various characteristics. The goal is to provide accurate estimates that help clients set the right sale or purchase price.

To achieve this, you use a detailed dataset that includes information about past sales, such as sale price, property size, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as specific variables like the year of construction and real estate value indices. You use this data to create a predictive model that analyzes the impact of these factors on house prices in the region.

The objective is to provide a powerful tool for the agency’s real estate agents, allowing them to quickly and accurately estimate house prices and thus help clients make informed decisions.

Content:

The dataset has 22 variables and 22 688 sales.

Graph and download economic data for New One Family Houses Sold: United States (HSN1F) from Jan 1963 to Aug 2025 about 1-unit structures, headline figure, family, new, sales, housing, and USA.

Existing Home Sales MoM in the United States decreased to 1.20 percent in October from 1.30 percent in September of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United States Existing Home Sales MoM.

Pending Home Sales in the United States decreased 0.40 percent in October of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Pending Home Sales - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Redfin is a real estate brokerage and publishes the US housing market data on a regular basis. Using this dataset, you can analyze and visualize housing market data for US cities. Timeline: Starting from February 2012 until the present time (Data is refreshed and updated on a monthly basis)

The dataset has the following columns: - period_begin - period_end - period_duration
- region_type
- region_type_id - table_id - is_seasonally_adjusted. (indicates if prices are seasonally adjusted; f represents False) - region - city - state - state_code - property_type - property_type_id - median_sale_price
- median_sale_price_mom (median sale price changes month over month) - median_sale_price_yoy (median sale price changes year over year) - median_list_price
- median_list_price_mom (median list price changes month over month) - median_list_price_yoy (median list price changes year over year) - median_ppsf (median sale price per square foot) - median_ppsf_mom (median sale price per square foot changes month over month) - median_ppsf_yoy (median sale price per square foot changes year over year) - median_list_ppsf (median list price per square foot) - median_list_ppsf_mom (median list price per square foot changes month over month) - median_list_ppsf_yoy. (median list price per square foot changes year over year) - homes_sold (number of homes sold) - homes_sold_mom (number of homes sold month over month) - homes_sold_yoy (number of homes sold year over year) - pending_sales
- pending_sales_mom
- pending_sales_yoy
- new_listings - new_listings_mom
- new_listings_yoy
- inventory - inventory_mom
- inventory_yoy
- months_of_supply
- months_of_supply_mom - months_of_supply_yoy
- median_dom (median days on market until property is sold) - median_dom_mom (median days on market changes month over month) - median_dom_yoy (median days on market changes year over year) - avg_sale_to_list (average sale price to list price ratio) - avg_sale_to_list_mom (average sale price to list price ratio changes month over month) - avg_sale_to_list_yoy (average sale price to list price ratio changes year over year) - sold_above_list
- sold_above_list_mom - sold_above_list_yoy - price_drops - price_drops_mom - price_drops_yoy - off_market_in_two_weeks (number of properties that will be taken off the market within 2 weeks) - off_market_in_two_weeks_mom (changes in number of properties that will be taken off the market within 2 weeks, month over month) - off_market_in_two_weeks_yoy (changes in number of properties that will be taken off the market within 2 weeks, year over year) - parent_metro_region - parent_metro_region_metro_code - last_updated

Filetype: gzip (gz) Support for gzip files in Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/gzip.html

Data Source & Credit: Redfin.com