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Roughly 47,000 U.S. home-sale contracts fell apart in April, but the cancellation rate edged down slightly as sellers grew more flexible and buyers adjusted to elevated mortgage costs.
The share of home sellers reducing their asking prices has pulled back from a record high, signaling a modest shift in negotiating power — though buyers still hold the upper hand in many markets.
The median U.S. home sale price climbed 2.4% year over year in April 2026, the sharpest increase since March 2025, as pending sales hit the highest level since 2023 and inventory expanded to its widest point since 2020.
Redfin data shows the seller-to-buyer imbalance shrank for the fourth consecutive month in April, as improved job-market sentiment pulled more shoppers back into the housing market.
After months of growing buyer leverage, the gap between home sellers and buyers finally began to narrow in April 2026, signaling a potential turning point in the U.S. housing market.
Redfin and Shadowmap rolled out Sunscore, a 0–100 property-level rating that reveals a home's sunlight exposure and solar potential.
A Redfin/Ipsos survey finds about 44% of U.S. adults would take a smaller, brighter home rather than a larger, dimmer one—and sunlight influences how satisfied people feel at home.
A temporary pullback in mortgage rates and slightly higher inventory helped push pending contracts to their strongest level in nearly four years, Redfin says.
A short-lived dip in mortgage rates pushed pending contracts to a near four-year high, but overall spring activity remains slower than in past years.
Redfin’s January–February analysis ranks zip codes by listing-view growth and competitiveness. Land O’ Lakes is No. 1 and six Midwest suburbs placed in the top 10.
Mortgage-purchase applications and pending sales rose in late April as the average 30-year rate fell to 6.23%, improving affordability and drawing more sellers to market.
