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Published on 1st February 2026

January "Journal" from the Resort Area Market

January's resort-area median price was unchanged from December at $385,000 and down 4.3% from January 2025, when it stood at $399,000. The average number of days it took for a home to sell and close in January was 138, up 2 days from December and 18 days higher than a year ago. The average number of days a home spent on the market over the last 30 days was 114, which compares to a 96-day average over the past 12-month period.

The overall resort area saw 227 closings in January, down from 362 in December and 326 in November 2025. The number of homes recorded as Pending—under offer/contract—totaled 448, up from 434 last month and 227  in January 2025. A home that changed hands in January recorded an average of 97.5% of its final listed price, the same as December but up from the 97.3% achieved 12 months ago.

In January, the resort area market saw 451 homes withdrawn after failing to attract a buyer while listed. The market's overall inventory level month-on-month stood at 3,370 homes, up from 3,430 in December and from 3,306 12 months ago. Current total inventory levels, when compared with the pace of sales, indicate a 14.6-month supply of available homes, up from the 9.5-month supply in December and slightly up from the 14.5-month supply recorded in January 2025. 

Orlando

Interest rates decreased from 6.1% in November to 6.0% in December, whilst the December median home price was $380,313, down from $385,000  in November. Homes spent an average of 78 days on the market in December, up slightly from November, when the average was 76. Inventory fell 9.0% overall from 1b in November to a total of 11,389 homes on the market.

Overall sales in December increased 19.9% from November, totaling 2,182. New listings fell 16.5%, with 2,415 new listings during December, compared to 2,891 new listings in November. In December 2025, inventory totaled 11,389, representing a 5.2-month supply. The average monthly inventory for 2025 was 12,908 homes. The average monthly inventory for 2024 was recorded as 10,289.

Florida

Florida’s housing market ended 2025 with higher single-family home sales and stabilizing prices after a year of shifting conditions, according to new data released by Florida Realtors. Closed sales of existing single-family homes reached 255,012 for the year, up 0.9% from 2024, the organization reported. Existing condo-townhouse sales totaled 88,793 units statewide, down 5.9% from the previous year.

December marked the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year increases in new pending sales of single-family homes, with 5.4% more homes going under contract than in December 2024. The streak was the longest period of growth since an 11-month run that began in February 2021.

The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes stood at $413,990 at year’s end, down 1.4% from 2024. Condo-townhouse properties had a median price of $310,000, down 4.7% from the previous year. Inventory levels showed a 4.6-month supply for single-family homes and an 8.8-month supply for condo-townhouse properties in December 2025 and the 4th quarter of 2025, suggesting a return to more typical seasonal patterns, the data showed.

U.S. 

U.S. existing-home sales rebounded in December 2025, posting their strongest seasonally adjusted pace in nearly 3 years as easing mortgage rates and slower price growth began to thaw a market frozen by affordability pressures. Sales rose 5.1% from November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.35 million, according to data released by the National Association of Realtors. The gain marked a 1.4% increase from a year earlier and capped a late-year improvement following a historically weak housing cycle.

The December advance was broad-based, with sales increasing in all 4 major U.S. regions on a month-over-month basis. Year-over-year, activity rose in the South, held steady in the Midwest and West, and declined in the Northeast.

Total housing inventory fell to 1.18 million units in December, down 18.1% from November but up 3.5% from a year earlier. That represents a 3.3-month supply at the current sales pace, down from 4.2 months in November. Prices continued to rise nationally, though gains were modest. The median existing-home price across all housing types edged up 0.4% from a year earlier to $405,400, marking the 30th consecutive month of annual price increases.

Single-family home sales climbed 5.1% from November to an annual rate of 3.95 million and were up 1.8% from a year earlier. The median single-family price rose 0.2% to $409,500. Condominium and co-op sales increased 5.3% on the month to an annual pace of $400,000, but were down 2.4% from December 2024. Median prices in the segment rose 1.5% to $364,400.

The Freddie Mac current average for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.09%.

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U.S Federal Prime Interest Rate = 6.75%   

Closing Numbers ... January 30th 2026…

1 G.B.P…Buys  1.373 U.S.D                   -              1 U.S.D…Buys  0.728  G.B.P

1 EURO...Buys  1.190 U.S.D                   -              1 U.S.D…Buys  0.840  EURO

 1 CAN $…Buys 0.739 U.S.D                   -              1 U.S.D…Buys  1.353  CAN $

Team Donovan publishes this updated monthly report on the 1st of each month for the benefit of all Orlando resort-area property owners. Our detailed community reports are updated and published on the 15th of each month.