If you’ve been sitting on the fence about listing your home, the inventory numbers give you a real, data-backed answer, not just a guess.

Months of inventory measures how long it would take to sell every home currently on the market at the current pace of sales. Lower numbers point toward a seller’s market; higher numbers point toward a buyer’s market. Over the last two years in St. Lucie and Indian River counties, this number has followed a strikingly consistent pattern.

Click to view full image

Inventory spiked to 12.3 months in January 2025. It spiked again the following January, hitting an even higher 12.8 months in January 2026. Both times, it then dropped sharply over the next two to three months. By June 2026, inventory had fallen all the way to 7.2 months, the tightest reading on the entire two year chart, before ticking back up slightly to 7.8 months in July.

What this pattern might mean

Florida real estate runs on a strong seasonal rhythm every year, and this year that’s layered with an added factor. The political climate in New York is pushing a real influx of buyers relocating from there. Locally, a lot of the conversation among buyers and sellers right now centers on whether Amendment 3 will pass.

If you’re thinking about listing in the next few months, the advice is direct. Price correctly from day one, disregard Zillow’s Zestimate entirely, and work with an agent who knows the local numbers cold and backs up pricing with strong, current comps.

Click the chart for a full view.