Home sellers have struggled to get the price they’re looking for this year, which has contributed to an influx of delistings, according to a report from Realtor.com.
Realtor.com’s monthly housing trends for November, it showed that the number of deletions in the month of October had increased by 38% compared to the same month last year. In addition, delistings have increased by about 45% so far in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, the report found.
About 6% of listings since June are being removed from the market each month by their sellers, making 2025 the year with the highest removal rate since Realtor.com started tracking in 2022.
“The delisting trend is a perfect personification of the stagnant and frustration-filled housing market,” said Realtor.com senior economist Jake Krimmel. “With buyers and sellers far apart, the sellers’ solution is to pull that trump card and delist, rather than lower prices.”
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Realtor.com reported that 2025 has been the busiest year for home removals since it started tracking the statistics in 2022. (Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
The report states that 2025 has been particularly unusual as summer delistings are typically slow due to high stock prices buyer activitybefore rising in the fall and winter when buyer activity waned, before trying again the following spring.
Krimmel said the number of delistings came early this year and was up 48% from a year ago in June, when an increase was expected. Delistings rose again in July, when the delisting rate was 57% higher than last year.
“Sellers came to the market and inventory boomed in many metro areas, but buyers never really showed up this summer,” Krimmel said. “Higher-than-expected interest rates and house prices, low consumer confidence and broader economic uncertainty have left demand extremely low.”
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Sellers typically drop the listing if they can’t get the price they want for their home, given buyers’ willingness to pay. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
The ratio of delistings to new listings was 0.27 in October, about the same as in August. This means that 27 homes have been taken off the market, compared to 20 a year ago. It also means that one home for every three to four homes was deleted new entries in October.
Delistings were most common in areas in the South and West, where inventories were relatively higher and, as a result, prices fell.
Miami had the highest percentage of delistings versus new listings: 45 in October, up from 60 in August, but up from 34 a year ago.
Denver ranks second with 39 new listings per 100 new listings, compared to 37 in August and 24 in October 2024.
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Regions in the South and West with higher inventory levels saw more removals, Realtor.com found. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Houston ranks third, with a ratio of 37 per 100, up from 31 in the same period last year, but down slightly from 40 in August.
Los Angeles and Riverside, California, rounded out Realtor.com’s top five with elimination rates of 33 and 32, respectively.
Krimmel said that to reduce the number of delistings, buyers and sellers must find a balance through factors such as greater certainty about the economy and inflationlower interest rates and clearer guidelines for Federal Reserve policy, plus more realistic prices.
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“Many potential sellers in 2025 are now having the experience of a failed listing. If they relist in 2026 with more realistic prices and terms, the takedowns may normalize,” Krimmel explains.
