Monthly · July 2026
3.2% higher than a year ago
The statewide median is an n-weighted aggregate of county medians, so it moves with mix as well as with price.
Zillow's Observed Rent Index for July, county by county across the nineteen markets we cover. Typical asked rent runs from $1,593 in Marion County to $3,489 in the Keys, and the year-over-year column splits the state in two.
The Redfin Home Price Index for July, published August 18, has national prices up 3.4% on the year and five Florida metros scattered from +8.9% to -0.4%. Read what the index measures before reading the number.
The Census Bureau's July report has starts down 12.4% and permits up 5.0%, the widest split of the year. In our Florida closing data, the builder pullback has been underway for two years.
Monthly · July 2026
demand 7.2% higher than a year ago
Closings are the cleanest demand signal we hold, because a closed sale is a completed decision rather than an intention.
Monthly · May 2026Census Building Permits Survey
5.6% lower than a year ago
Permits lead completions by roughly a year, so this is next year's supply, not this month's.
U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, single-family, Florida. Monthly.
Monthly · July 2026
5 days faster than a year ago
Falling days on market favours sellers; rising days favours buyers. Direction alone does not say who is winning.
Monthly · July 2026
sellers conceding 1.3pp less than a year ago
Measured against the ORIGINAL list price, so it captures cuts made during the listing, not just the final negotiation.
Monthly · July 2026
1.6% higher than a year ago
Price per square foot strips size mix out of the headline median.
Weekly to monthly · July 2026Freddie Mac PMMS averaged to months
0.18pp lower than a year ago
The single largest input to affordability, and the one no Florida policy can move.
Weekly, Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED (MORTGAGE30US), averaged to months. Read from the raw FRED lane, not rates-data.js, which _rates_ingest.py has failed to update since 2026-08-11.
Monthly · July 2026modelled from that month's rate and median price
$28 more per month than a year ago
Principal and interest only, 20% down. In Florida taxes and insurance are the larger share, so read direction, not budget.
Principal and interest only, 20% down, 30-year fixed at that month's average PMMS rate, on that month's Florida median closed price. Excludes taxes, insurance and HOA - in Florida those are the larger share of the payment, so read this as direction, not as a budget.
Annual · 2026June snapshot of each year
12.3% lower than a year ago
Active listings each June. Annual, because no monthly active-listing history exists yet.
Active residential listings, sum of Florida counties, June snapshot of each year. Annual - this is the only inventory history held as a series; no monthly active-listing history exists.
Annual, lagged · 2022-23IRS filed-year pairs, published years behind
55.8% lower than a year ago
IRS exemptions, net of inflow and outflow. Published on a long lag, so this is a trend, not a nowcast.
IRS Statistics of Income county-to-county migration, individual exemptions, net of inflow and outflow for Florida. State FIPS 1-56 only: pseudo-codes 57 (foreign), 58 (same-state) and 59 (regional aggregates) are excluded because 59 double-counts the state rows and 57 is not domestic. Annual, filed-year pairs, published on a long lag.
Reporting on the Florida housing market, computed from MLS records licensed across eleven multiple listing services. Latest complete month: 2026-07.
Sales are running above a year ago - 26,353 closings, up 7.2% - with the median at $430,386.
Sellers are conceding less and waiting less: 95.1% of original list against 93.8% a year ago, and 48 days on market against 53. On these two measures leverage moved toward sellers, not buyers.
The statewide number hides the range. West Palm Beach is +10.6% year over year; Miami-Dade is −0.9%. A single Florida figure describes no Florida market.
Assembled from the figures on this page by fixed rule, not written per release. It states what the numbers are and the mechanism they imply; it does not forecast. Interpretation beyond this appears under a byline.
Market statistics on this page are computed from MLS data licensed by Momentum Realty and from public records and government datasets, and are current as of the date shown. Data may be preliminary and subject to revision by its source. This page is general information, not advice about any specific property, transaction, or financial decision, and is not a representation about any specific property, community, builder, or association.
Statewide figures are an n-weighted aggregate of county medians, not a pooled median. Per-feed MLS attribution travels with each figure and feeds are never co-mingled in one number; each market page carries its own. Permit counts are U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, single-family, Florida. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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