US Housing Market
Home values, rents, inventory and affordability · Zillow Research and Redfin Data Center
Data as of Sep 09, 2026 22:01 · next refresh Sep 10, 2026 22:01 · ↻ Refresh
Prices & Affordability
Cost of Buying the Typical US Home
Monthly principal & interest, 20% down on a 30-year fixed. Excludes taxes, insurance and HOA, so it is a floor on the true cost. Zillow FRED
Payment today
—
Peak: —
vs Dec 2019: —
Case-Shiller National Home Price Index FRED
Back to 1987 — long enough to contain the 2006 bubble and the crash that followed, which Zillow's index only partly covers.
Price-to-Rent Ratio FRED
Home prices divided by CPI rent, indexed to 100 at the start. Above its own history means buying is expensive relative to renting.
Home Values vs Rents Zillow
Both indexed to 100 at their first common month, so the two sit on one scale and the gap is directly readable.
Rental Market
Market Rents vs Official Rent Inflation Zillow FRED
Year-over-year growth in asking rents for new tenants (Zillow) against CPI rent, which covers everyone including mid-lease tenants. CPI turns roughly a year after the market does, so the gap is a lead indicator rather than a contradiction.
Rental & Homeowner Vacancy Rates FRED
Share of units sitting empty and available, quarterly since 1956. Rising rental vacancy caps rent growth; homeowner vacancy near record lows is why prices have held up despite weak sales.
Supply & Construction
Asking vs Sold Price realtor.com Redfin
What sellers list at, against what buyers actually paid. Asking above sold means sellers have not yet met the market; the two converging is the market clearing.
Listing Supply realtor.com
Homes on the market against how many were newly listed each month. Active rising while new listings fall means what is listed is not selling.
Days on Market realtor.com
Median days a listing sits before going under contract. The 2021 trough and the climb since is the clearest single picture of the market cooling.
Demand Pressure realtor.com
Pending-to-active ratio and the share of listings that have taken a price cut. A falling ratio with a rising cut share is sellers losing pricing power.
Construction Pipeline FRED
Permits, starts and completions in thousands of units at an annual rate. They run in that order, so permits turning down is the earliest warning of a construction slowdown.
Months' Supply of New Homes FRED
How long the unsold new-home inventory would last at the current sales pace. Six months is the conventional balance point; above that, builders discount.
New Single-Family Home Sales FRED
Thousands of units at an annual rate, back to 1963. New homes are a small share of sales but the part that responds fastest to rates.
Inventory & New Listings Redfin
Homes for sale versus homes newly listed each month. Inventory rising while new listings flatten means buyers are absorbing less.
Who Has the Leverage Redfin
Share of listings cutting price against share selling above asking. When the lines cross, negotiating power changes hands.
Mortgage Rates & Credit
Mortgage Rates: 30-Year vs 15-Year FRED
Weekly Freddie Mac survey averages. The gap between the two is what a borrower pays for the option to stretch repayment over another fifteen years.
Mortgage Spread over the 10-Year Treasury FRED
Mortgages are priced off the 10-year, not the funds rate. This spread separates "rates are high because the Fed is tight" from "mortgage credit itself is expensive" — which is why the easing priced on the Rates page does not pass through one-for-one.
Current spread
—
range —
Single-Family Mortgage Delinquency Rate FRED
Share of residential mortgages at commercial banks that are past due, quarterly since 1991. The 2010 peak above 11% is the reference point for judging any current uptick.
Metro Detail
Home Value Change by Metro, Year over Year Zillow
The 25 largest metros, sorted. Bars sit left or right of zero and carry their own value, so the direction never rests on colour alone.
Typical Home Value by Metro Zillow
Pick a metro to compare its path against the national index.
Metro Detail Zillow
Every value from the charts above, in full, for the 25 largest metros.
By State realtor.com
All 50 states and DC for the latest month. Click a column to sort. These are asking prices, not sale prices, so they are not comparable with the Zillow or Redfin levels above.
By Metro realtor.com
The 50 largest metros by household count. Click a column to sort. County and ZIP level exist upstream but are 97 MB and 784 MB, so they are not carried here.
Reading these two sources together
Zillow and Redfin do not measure the same market, so their price levels are not interchangeable. For the same month Redfin reported a median sale price of about $440k against Zillow's $370k — roughly a 19% gap — because Redfin's universe is MLS-centric and metro-weighted while Zillow's is broader. Their price-cut measures differ in definition too, not just in coverage. Each card above therefore names its publisher, and no chart mixes the two on one axis as though they agreed. Use Zillow for home-value and rent levels across metros, and Redfin for market mechanics: inventory, months of supply, days on market and the share selling above asking.
Both series are revised as late transactions arrive, and Zillow's home-value and sale-price indices are seasonally adjusted while several supply measures are not. Monthly data, updated once a month.
Sources: Zillow Research · Zillow dashboards · Redfin Data Center · Redfin dashboards · mortgage rate via FRED