For the past year and a half, homes across St. Lucie and Indian River counties have been sitting on the market longer and longer. That trend just reversed, and it’s been reversing for several months now.

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Here’s what the numbers show. Back in August 2024, the average home in both counties spent 61 days on the market before going under contract. That number climbed steadily, month after month, until it hit 90 days in January 2026. Almost a month and a half longer to sell a house than two years earlier.

Then it turned. By July 2026, average days on market had dropped back down to 80. Cumulative days on market, which tracks the full time a listing spends active including any relistings, tells the same story. It climbed from 70 days to a peak of 98 in February 2026, then fell to 95 by July.

What was driving the slowdown

Mortgage rates play a big part in this. The 30-year fixed rate has been sitting in the mid 6 percent range for most of 2026, and it isn’t dramatically different from where it sat a year ago. As of August 20, 2026, the national average was 6.65 percent, compared to 6.58 percent the same week last year, according to Freddie Mac’s weekly survey. Rates didn’t get worse. They also didn’t get meaningfully better, and buyers spent a long stretch adjusting to that reality.

What’s changed since

If you’re a buyer, the market has more urgency in it than it did six months ago, but it hasn’t snapped back into a frenzy. For sellers, the picture is more mixed than the average suggests. A number of overpriced listings, several of them held by asset managers, are still sitting well past this faster pace. The homes actually moving quickly are the ones priced to where buyers are right now, not to where the market was a year ago. 

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