Housing markets where homebuyers have gained the most power, as told by ‘days to pending’

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. The spring 2022 housing market was one of the most competitive periods on record. In many housing markets, homes went pending within days of hitting the market as buyers rushed to lock in mortgages before rates moved higher. Four years later, the landscape looks very different. According to Zillow data, the typical U.S. home listed for sale in May 2026 went pending after roughly 18 days—three times longer than the six-day national median recorded in May 2022. The “median days ...