• News Corp’s Realtor.com May 2026 housing report showed the US median list price fell 2.4% YoY to $429,500, the steepest drop since 2017.
• Pending sales rose 4.3% YoY for a sixth straight month, signaling demand resilience despite mortgage rates rising to 6.53% in May.
• New listings increased 2.1% YoY to 474,976, the highest May level since 2022; active listings rose to 1.06 million.
• Price reductions eased, with 17.5% of active listings cut, down 1.6 percentage points YoY, pointing to earlier seller repricing.
• Inventory growth flipped toward the Northeast and Midwest; new listings rose 8.6% YoY in the Northeast, 4.7% in the Midwest.

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