List Now, Not September

The tightest new-listing supply since 2022 is not a forecast, it is the current condition.

Sellers who enter the market in the next three to four weeks step into a window where buyer activity is building and competition from other listings is historically thin.

By late August, that dynamic typically flips as summer inventory accumulates and buyer urgency fades. The clients considering listing this fall need to hear one thing: the best version of this market is not 90 days away. It is now.

The May data is the first chapter of a story that hasn’t yet been resolved.

Sales moved. Listings didn’t keep up. The spring arrived late but with real buyers behind it, and those buyers are now entering a market with the least new supply since 2022.

That is not the recovery everyone expected, it is quieter, tighter, and more localized than the 2021 version, but the direction shifted in May, and the practitioners who positioned their clients ahead of it are already working the advantage.