Market updates
Everyone Assumes This Market Slowed Down. Sellers Are Still Getting Full Price.
Over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, the territory-wide median sale-to-list ratio held at 100%, with 42.1% of homes selling above asking.
Read the post →Everyone Says Homes Are Sitting Longer This Summer. Here's What Actually Happened.
Over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, days on market crept up across Frederick County and the Baltimore suburbs, but sellers still walked away with more money than a year ago.
One Buy Box, Two Very Different Waits For a Pending Sign
In the twelve weeks ending August 23, 2026, homes in Owings Mills and Westminster sat inside the same buy box, yet buyers there moved at very different speeds toward a signed contract.
Fewer New Listings Should Have Tightened This Market. Instead, It Loosened.
In the twelve weeks ending August 23, 2026, new listings fell across Ellicott City, Columbia, Owings Mills, Randallstown, Westminster, Frederick, Mount Airy and Sykesville, yet the number of homes sitting on the market kept climbing.
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