A growing number of home sellers are taking lingering properties off the market instead of lowering their prices, keeping overall costs high and dampening available listings.

Nationwide, delistings rose 52 percent in September compared to the year before, after peaking at a nearly 72 percent annual growth rate in August, according to fresh data from Realtor.com. That’s up from September 2024, when delistings rose 46 percent.

Summer is usually the busiest time in the housing market, and people are more likely to take their homes off the market in the winter. But in September, the rise in delistings outpaced inventory growth threefold, above and beyond typical trends. The number of delistings compared to new listings also rose: for every 100 new listings in August, 28 homes were delisted,

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