EXSFHSUSM495S · as of 2026-09-01
Existing SF Home Sales
Existing Single-Family Home Sales
View on FRED · EXSFHSUSM495S ↗3640.00M
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▼ 1.89%
13 obs · monthly · millions── 1y ago 3710.00M
What it is
SFR slice of transaction volume. Use when condos and co-ops would muddy the read.
- source
- FRED
- frequency
- monthly
- units
- millions
- s.a.
- yes
Note: SAAR.
What it’s telling us · as of 2026-09-01
Existing single-family sales sit at 3.64 million annualized, down 1.9% from a year ago — a modest pullback, not a cliff. The last three months have whipsawed between 3.57 and 3.76 million, which reads as chop around a stable floor rather than a clear trend breaking either direction. For a market that's supposed to be cooling, holding within 2% of last year's pace suggests either demand hasn't cracked as much as sentiment implies, or sellers have finally stopped listing into weakness — either way, liquidity isn't drying up fast enough to change the math on your next acquisition.
⟡ auto-generated weekly · claude-haiku-4-5 · reviewed before publish
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Python · fredapi
"""
Existing SF Home Sales — SFR slice of transaction volume. Use when condos and co-ops would muddy the read.
Freq: monthly · Source: FRED
"""
from fredapi import Fred
fred = Fred(api_key="YOUR_FRED_API_KEY")
series = fred.get_series("EXSFHSUSM495S")
print(series.tail())LLM prompt
You are analyzing FRED series EXSFHSUSM495S — Existing Single-Family Home Sales. Context: SFR slice of transaction volume. Use when condos and co-ops would muddy the read. Attributes - Units: millions - Frequency: monthly - Source: FRED Latest observation: 3640.00M as of 2026-09-01 Year-over-year change: -1.89% Analyze this metric for a tech-forward real estate investor with 1–3 properties. What is it signaling right now? What should I watch next?