Posted on September 30, 2025
Starter home sales continue to be hot nationally, with Indiana buyers the most thirsty. Starter homes (according to Redfin) are those with sale prices in the 5% to 35% price tier.
Homes taking roughly the same amount of time to sell across all price tiers
The typical starter home sold in 41 days in August, a week slower than last year, while mid- and high-price homes took 40 and 41 days respectively.
Just over a third (34.3%) of starter homes went under contract within two weeks in August, similar to homes in mid-price (34.4%) and high-price (32.3%) tiers.
Metro-Level Starter Home Highlights: August 2025
Redfin’s metro-level starter home data includes the 50 most populous U.S. metros. Some metros are removed from time to time, to ensure data accuracy. All changes noted below are year-over-year changes.
- Prices: The median sale price of starter homes rose most in Milwaukee (14.9% to $218,456), Detroit (13.7% to $98,985) and Pittsburgh (10.3% to $139,337). The largest declines were in San Antonio (-5.5% to $214,493), Austin, TX (-4.5% to $320,107), and Jacksonville, FL (-4.2% to $249,049).
- Sales: Starter home sales increased most in Providence, RI (25.3%), Milwaukee (12%) and Riverside, CA (10.8%). They decreased most in San Antonio (-10%), Miami (-7.3% and San Jose, CA (-5.8%).
- Active listings: The total number of starter homes for sale increased most in Las Vegas (42.9%), Miami (35.8% and Seattle (33.7%). Active listings increased in all the metros we analyzed, but those with the slowest growth were Tampa, FL (2%), San Antonio (2.2%) and Kansas City, MO (3.5%)
- New listings: New listings of starter homes increased most in Newark, NJ (14.8%), Nassau County, NY (10.4%) and New Brunswick, NJ (9.1%). New listings fell most in Jacksonville, FL (-18.9%), Tampa, FL (-17.6%) and San Antonio (-13.7%).
- Speed of sales: Starter homes sold fastest in Indianapolis with a median of 16 days, followed by Seattle (17 days), Warren, MI (20 days) and Kansas City (20 days). They sold slowest in Fort Lauderdale, FL (109 days), West Palm Beach, FL (102 days) and Miami (87 days).