Real Estate Stats You Might Find Interesting
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Real Estate Stats You Might Find Interesting

The pace of Boston home sales decreased 1% year over year to 3,117 in April, according to the latest RE/MAX National Housing Report. Month over month, however, sales surged 27.4%.
Nationally, home sales in the 51 metro areas surveyed by RE/MAX slid 1.4% year over year in but gained 11.3% month over month, continuing a trend that began in March.
The median-sales price was $440,000, up 2.3% year over year and 1.2% month over month.
The number of homes for sale in April rose 33.9% year over year and 2.9% month over month. Months’ supply of inventory inched up to 2.3 months from 2.2 months in March and 1.7 months in April 2024.
“April’s housing market showed some encouraging growth, with home sales increasing and days on market decreasing compared to March. The uptick in closings was a welcome development,” RE/MAX Holdings CEO Erik Carlson said in a press release. “For-sale inventory increased with plenty of sellers ready to meet demand. However, we still need to see more buyers entering the market.”
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Real Estate Stats You Might Find Interesting
The Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO)(link is external) estimates that there are over 3 million active real estate licensees in the United States.
There are 106,548 real estate brokerage firms operating in the United States (Real Estate and Rental and Leasing: Summary Statistics for the U.S., States, and Selected Geographies: 2017(link is external)).
Preliminary results from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS)(link is external) show that there were 5.9 million commercial buildings in the United States in 2018, comprising 97.0 billion square feet of floor space.
There are approximately 119.7 million occupied housing units in the United States, according to the 2018 American Community Survey(link is external).
According to the 2021 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, the typical home seller has been in their home for 8 years. The typical home size is 1,900 square feet. The typical homeowner is 45 years old.
In 2019, 64.9% of families owned their primary residence, according to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances(link is external).