{"id":180712,"date":"2026-02-26T04:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180712\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:43:29","slug":"remax-houston-home-sales-slip-year-over-year-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180712\/","title":{"rendered":"REMAX: Houston home sales\u00a0slip year over year in\u00a0January\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pace of Houston home sales\u00a0fell 4.3% year over year\u00a0in\u00a0January, according to the latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.remax.com\/press-release\/remax-national-housing-report-for-january-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">REMAX\u00a0National Housing Repor<\/a>t.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, home sales in the 51\u00a0metro areas surveyed by\u00a0REMAX\u00a0declined\u00a06% year over year\u00a0and\u00a032% month over month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The number of homes for sale in\u00a0January\u00a0rose\u00a010.9% year over year and dipped 0.1% month over month, marking the 25th consecutive month of annual gains.\u00a0Months\u2019\u00a0supply of inventory was\u00a03.1\u00a0months, up from 2.8\u00a0months in\u00a0January\u00a02025\u00a0and\u00a0down from\u00a03.5 months in\u00a0December.\u00a0Miami\u00a0continued to lead\u00a0the nation in months\u2019 supply, with\u00a0seven\u00a0months following a\u00a02.3% annual\u00a0increase from 7.2 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0national\u00a0median\u00a0sales\u00a0price rose\u00a01%\u00a0year over year\u00a0to $425,000.\u00a0Month over month,\u00a0it was down\u00a02%.\u00a0The average close-to-list-price ratio was 98%, the same as in\u00a0January\u00a02025\u00a0and\u00a0December 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a month that is traditionally slow, inventory was higher than it was a year ago, and new listings came to market, giving buyers more options,\u201d REMAX CEO Erik Carlson\u00a0said. \u201cEven as sales adjusted seasonally, the fundamentals point to a market that continues moving toward balance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pace of Houston home sales\u00a0fell 4.3% year over year\u00a0in\u00a0January, according to the latest\u00a0REMAX\u00a0National Housing Report.\u00a0\u00a0 Nationally, home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[72488,1538,56,58,57,72489,72490,111,72491,72492,51001],"class_list":["post-180712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-erik-carlson","tag-home-sales","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-re-max","tag-re-max-national-housing-report","tag-real-estate","tag-real-estate-news","tag-remax-national-housing-report","tag-sc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}