{"id":140485,"date":"2026-02-20T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140485\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:01:11","slug":"new-york-state-home-sales-declined-7-5-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140485\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Home Sales Declined 7.5% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dpsp-share-text \" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n\t\tShare this article!\t<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"Mjc2LDYsMSwyMA==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.softminkyblankets.com\/WRE50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Unknown.jpeg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Unknown.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York State recorded 7,304 closed home sales in January, a 7.5% decline from the 7,893 homes sold one year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the New York State Association of Realtors, pending home sales were also down last month, falling 5.5% from 6,321 homes under contract one year ago to 5,972 this January. New listings also fell, declining 7.3% from 9,133 properties in January 2025 to 8,468 this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>The only data point rising were sales prices. The statewide median sales price rose 7.2% year-over-year to $445,000, compared to $415,000 in January 2025. This marked the 30th consecutive month of annual median price growth across the state.\n<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Dennis Tangney Jr. \/ Getty Images\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MjYzLDUsMSwyMA==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.softminkyblankets.com\/WRE50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Unknown-1.jpeg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Unknown-1.jpeg\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share this article! New York State recorded 7,304 closed home sales in January, a 7.5% decline from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10700,10701,9,11,10,49,10390,51,50],"class_list":["post-140485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-home-prices","tag-home-sales","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-association-of-realtors","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}