Existing Home Sales: release dates, results and history
Existing Home Sales last printed 3.98M on Thu, Sep 10, 2026 against a 3.98M consensus forecast and a 4.06M prior, exactly on consensus. The next release is Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
Existing sales are about 90% of the housing market, so this is the cleanest read you get on what mortgage rates have done to buyers. The awkward part is the timing. A sale is counted at closing, one to two months after the contract was signed, so every print describes a rate environment that has already moved on. Inventory, measured as months of supply, and the median price come out in the same release, and those two are where you read affordability.
The trend
How it moves Treasuries
On its own this rarely moves Treasuries, and a sales beat only leans mildly bearish. You read it for confirmation. It tells you whether cheaper or more expensive mortgages have reached the real economy yet. See it scored live on the Helious desk, or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
Recent prints, as captured by the desk
| DATE | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PRIOR | SURPRISE (SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.98M | 3.98M | 4.06M | 0.00 | ON THE SCREWS | |
| 4.06M | 4.05M | 4.09M | +0.08 | ON THE SCREWS | |
| 4.09M | — | 4.17M | — | BELOW PRIOR |
The 3 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the API.
Official series history
| PERIOD | VALUE (UNITS SAAR) | PRIOR | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.98M | 4.06M | -0.08M | |
| 4.06M | 4.13M | -0.07M | |
| 4.13M | 4.19M | -0.06M | |
| 4.19M | 4.04M | +0.15M | |
| 4.04M | 4.01M | +0.03M | |
| 4.01M | 4.13M | -0.12M | |
| 4.13M | 4.02M | +0.11M | |
| 4.02M | 4.27M | -0.25M |
These are the most recent official rows, and the chart above draws the longer series behind them. The desk-captured prints higher up the page carry the consensus forecast and the standard-deviation surprise as they stood the moment each number landed.
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Monthly, ~third week for the prior month · 10:00 AM ET · download a sample (CSV, recent rows), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the Helious API and MCP at api.helious.io/mcp, with depth set by plan.