81 major housing markets where home prices are falling

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Based on our analysis of the Zillow Home Value Index, U.S. home prices are up 0.7% year over year between April 2025 and April 2026. That year-over-year pace is the same as it was a year ago—back in April 2025, when the national year-over-year home price growth rate was 0.7%. And it’s up slightly from the recent year-over-year low of -0.01% in August 2025.

In the first half of 2025, the number of major metro-area housing markets seeing year-over-year declines climbed. That count has since stopped ticking up.

• 31 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 10% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the January 2024 to January 2025 window.
• 42 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 14% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the February 2024 to February 2025 window.
• 60 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 20% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the March 2024 to March 2025 window.
• 80 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 27% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the April 2024 to April 2025 window.
• 96 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 32% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the May 2024 to May 2025 window.
• 110 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 36% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the June 2024 to June 2025 window.
• 105 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 36% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the July 2024 to July 2025 window.
• 109 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 35% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the August 2024 to August 2025 window.
• 105 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 35% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the September 2024 to September 2025 window.
• 105 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 35% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the October 2024 to October 2025 window.
• 98 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 33% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the November 2024 to November 2025 window.
• 106 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 35% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the December 2024 to December 2025 window.
• 100 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 33% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the January 2025 to January 2026 window.
• 99 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 33% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the February 2025 to February 2026 window.
• 89 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 30% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the March 2025 to March 2026 window.
• 81 of the nation’s 300 largest housing markets (i.e., 27% of markets) had a falling year-over-year reading in the April 2025 to April 2026 window.

As you can see above, in the first half of 2025, there was a notable increase in the number of housing markets slipping into year-over-year price declines as the supply–demand equilibrium (as measured by inventory) shifted more quickly toward homebuyers. Over the past 10 months, however, the list of declining markets has begun to stabilize, and inventory growth has also decelerated.

Based on seasonally adjusted month-over-month prints, ResiClub expects the number of markets with year-over-year price declines to decrease more in the coming months.

Home prices are still climbing a little, year over year, in many regions where active inventory remains well below pre-pandemic 2019 levels, such as pockets of the Northeast and Midwest. In contrast, some pockets in states like Texas, Florida, and Colorado—where active inventory exceeds pre-pandemic 2019 levels by a solid clip—are seeing modest home price pullbacks or flat pricing.

Click here for an interactive version of the chart below.

We should point out that it’s possible for a metro with falling year-over-year home prices to already be done seeing seasonally adjusted month-over-month home price declines (at least for the time being)—or to have turned the corner in some areas of the metro. For example, the core of San Francisco has seen notable pricing and buyer activity this spring, even while the broader metro remains down slightly, year over year, and weakness persists in Oakland.

Many of the housing markets seeing the most softness, where homebuyers have gained the most leverage, are primarily located in Sunbelt regions, particularly the Gulf Coast and Mountain West.

Many of these areas saw even greater price surges during the pandemic housing boom, with home price growth outpacing local income levels. As pandemic-driven domestic migration slowed and mortgage rates rose in 2022, markets like Austin and Tampa, Florida, faced challenges, relying on local income levels to support frothy home prices.

That Sunbelt softening was further compounded by an abundance of new home supply in the Sunbelt. Builders are often willing to lower prices or offer affordability incentives to maintain sales, which also has a cooling effect on the resale market. As a result, some buyers who might have previously opted for existing homes are instead choosing new construction with more attractive deals—which added further upward pressure to resale inventory growth over the past few years.

Of course, while 81 of the nation’s 300 largest metro-area housing markets are seeing year-over-year home price declines, another 219 are seeing year-over-year home price increases.

Where are home prices still up on a year-over-year basis? See the map below.

Below is a historical chart showing the year-over-year change in home prices across the 50 largest metro housing markets, with the yellow line representing the national aggregate, dating back to 2000.

While the “range” [see chart above] between the strongest and weakest metro-area housing markets right now is fairly normal, historically speaking, the “bifurcation” (i.e., direction) itself—the share of markets with rising home prices versus those with falling prices—is wider than normal, given that national appreciation has stabilized into a softer market with growth barely above 0%. And the longer some markets remain in the “rising” camp while others stay in the “falling” camp, the wider the gulf can become between the relatively more resilient markets and the weaker ones.

For example, home prices in the Hartford, Connecticut, metro area are now 24 % above their 2022 peak, while home prices in the Austin metro area sit 27.5% below their 2022 peak. Some of that “bifurcation” boils down to mean reversion, with many of the outright home price declines occurring in markets that overheated further during the pandemic housing boom.

Note: For the historical chart below, we analyzed the 200 largest markets rather than the 300 used above, as some markets ranked 201 to 300 lack complete data going back to 2000. When weighted by population (not visualized), the housing market appears slightly weaker than the chart below suggests—which aligns with the fact that, among just the 50 largest housing markets, 24 (48%) are currently posting negative year-over-year price growth, and nationally aggregated home prices are up just 0.7% year over year using the Zillow Home Value Index.

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