What King County sellers put up, July 2026
King County sellers listed 2,940 homes in July 2026, up 5.4% from a year earlier. The series has run from 672 in December 2022 to 4,684 in May 2019.
New listings are the supply side of the inventory number, and they are the half that says something about behaviour. Active inventory is a stock — what is sitting there — and it can rise either because more people are selling or because fewer people are buying. New listings are a flow, and only sellers control it. When the two diverge, the story is demand.
The sawtooth is severe here and it is not noise: listing a house is a spring activity in this market, so the year-over-year comparison is the only one that means anything. Nothing here is seasonally adjusted.
Source: Realtor.com residential listings, King County WA (FIPS 53033), via FRED NEWLISCOU53033. Auto-generated each build.