More Americans are rethinking listing their homes for sale. According to Realtor.com’s November monthly housing trends report, delistings in October climbed 45.5 percent year to date and 37.9 percent year over year.
Realtor.com reports delistings with a one-month lag to verify whether a home was sold or genuinely taken off the market.
So far, 2025 has seen the highest level of delistings since Realtor.com began tracking the statistic in 2022. A delisting typically occurs when the home listing expires, or the seller decides to pull the home off the market without a sale.
The report, released on Dec. 8, shows that delistings began to increase in June and have continued to rise, with roughly 6 percent of active listings pulled from the market each month. In October, the delisting-to-new-listing ratio reached 0.27, meaning that for every 100 new listings, 27 were taken off the market….