Homes for Sale Are Up 7.4 Percent Nationally. Las Vegas Active Listings Are Up 9.8 Percent

by Ryan Rose

What Happened

Realtor.com released its October housing report on Nov. 4, 2026. It counted 1,183,500 active listings in the U.S., up 7.4 percent from a year earlier. That was the fastest annual growth in eight months. A little math shows what that means: roughly 81,000 more homes for sale than in October 2025.

The same report has a table of 50 large metros, and the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas metro is one of them. Active listings here rose 9.8 percent. The report does not give the actual number of active listings for Las Vegas. It gives only the percent change.

Las Vegas REALTORS gives us a real count. Its October report, covered by FOX5 Vegas on Nov. 6, says 8,112 single-family homes were listed without an offer at the end of the month. That is up 7.6 percent from a year earlier, or roughly 570 more homes. Condos and townhomes listed without an offer rose 6.7 percent.

Zillow published its own October numbers on Nov. 5. It has U.S. inventory up 3.4 percent and Las Vegas inventory up 3.6 percent. Zillow also puts the national count at about 1.4 million homes for sale, well above the Realtor.com total.

Here is how it all lines up:

Realtor.com, October: U.S. active listings up 7.4 percent. Las Vegas metro up 9.8 percent. Gap of 2.4 points.
Zillow, October: U.S. inventory up 3.4 percent. Las Vegas up 3.6 percent. Gap of 0.2 points.
Las Vegas REALTORS, end of October: Single-family homes without offers up 7.6 percent, to 8,112. Condos and townhomes without offers up 6.7 percent. No national match.

Why don't they agree? Each group pulls from its own listing data and measures it its own way. The local group is counting only homes with no offer yet, and it splits houses from condos. So do not treat 9.8 percent as the one true number. Treat it as one good reading. All three point up, and none of them show Las Vegas falling behind the country.

Realtor.com's report also compares Las Vegas with the U.S. on a few other measures:

Median list price: $459,900 in Las Vegas, down 2.6 percent. $415,000 nationally, down 2.2 percent.
List price per square foot: down 2.7 percent in Las Vegas, down 1.5 percent nationally.
Share of listings with a price cut: 23.8 percent in Las Vegas, 20.5 percent nationally.
Time on the market: up 2 days in Las Vegas, up 1 day nationally.
New listings: down 10.5 percent in Las Vegas, down 7.5 percent nationally.

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Why It Matters to Las Vegas Residents

If you are buying, more listings usually mean more choices and less rush. You can compare more homes before you make an offer. You may also have more room to ask for a lower price, repairs, or help with closing costs. None of that is promised on any one home, and the best homes in a neighborhood can still draw quick interest. But the overall count is moving your way.

Here is a simple way to picture 9.8 percent. If you had 10 homes to choose from in your price range last October, you would have about 11 today. That is a real change, but it is not a flood. One extra choice can still be the home that fits, or the one that gives you a reason to negotiate on another.

If you are selling, the 23.8 percent figure is the one to look at. Nearly one in four Las Vegas listings had a price cut in October, compared with about one in five nationally. Here is a detail that gets missed. That Las Vegas share is actually 1.4 points lower than a year ago, while the national share rose 0.2 points. So Las Vegas sellers cut prices more often than sellers across the country, but a bit less often than they did last October.

That tells you something useful. The market is not in a panic. It does mean a home priced above the others nearby has more competition than it had a year ago. Buyers can see those other homes with a few taps on a phone.

Homes that are priced right are still moving, too. Las Vegas REALTORS says 72.4 percent of single-family homes sold within 60 days in October, a little better than the 71.7 percent a year earlier. So a growing list of homes for sale does not mean every home sits. It means the gap between a well-priced home and an overpriced one is easier to see.

If you own a condo or townhome, keep an eye on your own side of the market. Listings without an offer rose 6.7 percent, which is a smaller gain than for houses. But FOX5's report shows condo and townhome sales fell 23.6 percent, compared with 11.9 percent for single-family homes. Only 62.5 percent of condos and townhomes sold within 60 days, down from 67.5 percent. Fewer buyers against more listings is a harder spot, even with a smaller rise in listings.

If you own a home and are not moving, this number changes little for you day to day. More listings do not mean owners are in trouble. Short sales and foreclosures together were just 1.1 percent of October sales, per Las Vegas REALTORS. The median single-family sale price was $475,000, up 0.1 percent from a year earlier.

Do not mix that $475,000 with the $459,900 above. The first is what single-family homes actually sold for. The second is what sellers were asking across active listings. Those are two different groups of homes, measured by two different sources.

Background and History

The national number has been building for a while. Realtor.com says U.S. active listings have risen each month since February. It also says part of the faster growth in October comes from a softer comparison last fall, when inventory was rising more slowly. So some of that 7.4 percent is about what happened a year ago.

The "still below normal" line comes from the same report. Realtor.com says national inventory is about 6.6 percent to 6.7 percent below typical pre-pandemic levels, and the release uses both figures. It calls this the narrowest gap since the pandemic. Its table also shows active listings just 2.1 percent below October 2019, and the release does not explain the difference. A Las Vegas comparison with pre-pandemic levels: NOT FOUND. The report gives that measure only for the whole country.

Regions are moving at very different speeds, and that helps put Las Vegas in context. Active listings rose 16.5 percent in the Northeast, 13.8 percent in the Midwest, 9.0 percent in the West and 3.8 percent in the South. So Las Vegas is running a little ahead of the West and the country. It is well behind the Northeast and Midwest. Las Vegas is not the outlier here. It is just on the higher side of the middle.

The odd part is that listings are growing while fewer sellers are listing. New listings fell in both places. Realtor.com explains that homes already on the market are staying there, while buyer demand has weakened. Under-contract homes fell 10.5 percent nationally, the steepest annual drop since October 2023. Few sellers are giving up, either. The share of listings pulled from the market was 4.4 percent, compared with 4.6 percent a year earlier. Realtor.com senior economist Jake Krimmel described sellers as showing "more of a pause than an exodus."

Rates are a big part of this. Realtor.com says the 30-year mortgage rate averaged 7.33 percent in October, 1.10 points higher than a year earlier. Las Vegas REALTORS President George Kypreos also pointed to recent rate increases, and said demand for homes in Southern Nevada is still strong. Local sales were already low before this. FOX5 notes that the 2025 sales total was the lowest since 2007, far below the record 50,010 properties sold in 2021.

Put the listing count next to the sales count and you can see why supply is climbing. Single-family homes without an offer rose 7.6 percent while single-family sales fell 11.9 percent. When more homes are waiting and fewer are selling, the number of months it would take to sell them all goes up. Las Vegas REALTORS says the October pace works out to nearly a six-month supply, compared with just over four and a half months a year earlier.

Cash buyers are one group that higher rates do not touch directly. They made up 26.2 percent of October sales, almost the same as the 26.5 percent a year earlier. That is well below the peak of 59.5 percent in February 2013. So about three of every four buyers here are still likely to care a great deal about what rates do next.

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What Happens Next

Nobody can say for sure where listings go from here, but there are clear things to watch. The first is mortgage rates. Realtor.com says the 30-year rate was 7.24 percent on Oct. 29, down from 7.40 percent in mid-October. Kypreos said he suspects the numbers would look a lot different if rates fell by about a point. A drop like that could bring buyers back and start to shrink the pile of listings.

The second is new listings. If they keep falling faster here than in the country, the growth in active listings could slow, even without many more sales. Nationally, new listings dropped 9.5 percent from September to October, and late fall is usually a quieter stretch for home sales in general. A true read on how much of this is the season will take a few more months of reports. For now, the 10.5 percent drop in Las Vegas new listings sits right next to the 10.8 percent drop for the West as a whole, so sellers here are behaving a lot like sellers around the region.

The third is the price-cut share. If that 23.8 percent starts climbing again, sellers are feeling more pressure. If it keeps easing, sellers and buyers may be finding each other at today's prices. Las Vegas REALTORS and Realtor.com both report monthly, so the November numbers should show up around early December if they stick to their usual timing.

Ryan's Take

I like to see more than one count before I say anything about this market, and this month is a good example of why. If you only saw the Realtor.com number, you would think Las Vegas is pulling well ahead of the country. If you only saw the Zillow number, you would think we are matching it almost exactly. What I trust is the part they share. Supply here is up, it is not down, and buyers have more to look at than they did last year.

I would also remind you that a metro number is one number for a very large valley. None of these reports break out the southwest valley or Summerlin, which is where I spend most of my time. A price range or a neighborhood can look very different from the total. That is why I would never price a home, or write an offer, off a headline. I would look at the actual homes for sale and recently sold on the streets around it.

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What You Can Do

If you are buying, use the extra choice. Tour more than one home in your price range before you decide. Look at how long a home has been listed and whether its price has already changed. Then get a clear payment figure from a lender at today's rates, since a change in rate can move your monthly number as much as a change in price.

If you are selling, start by finding out what is active right now within a short drive of your home, not only what sold last spring. Those active homes are your real competition. Price with them in mind, and take care of the small repairs and cleaning that help a home stand out. If you do not have to sell this fall, it is also fair to ask whether waiting makes sense for your situation.

If you are just watching, follow the same few numbers each month: active listings, new listings, and the share of homes with a price cut. Check who published the number, too. As this month shows, the source can change the story.

Have questions about how this affects your home or neighborhood? Reach out to Ryan Rose or text/call 702-747-5921 anytime. Ryan Rose | Real Broker, LLC | ryan@rosehomeslv.com | rosehomeslv.com