by April 4, 2025 10:19 am
-Home sales down 1.5% in the Fort Smith metro
The Fort Smith metro home sales market is off to a slow start, with total sales down 1.5% in the first two months of 2025 compared with the same period…
by Michael Tilley - April 4, 2025 10:19 am
The Fort Smith metro home sales market is off to a slow start, with total sales down 1.5% in the first two months of 2025 compared with the same period…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - January 21, 2025 1:30 pm
Fort Smith metro home sales totaled 2,974 between January and October, up 6.8% compared with the same period in 2023. The combined value of the homes sold was $707.327 million,…
by Michael Tilley - November 25, 2024 11:51 am
The Fort Smith metro appears to be rebounding from an almost 15% decline in 2023 home sales and a 12% decline in the combined value of home sales. Metro area…
by Michael Tilley - September 5, 2024 1:05 pm
A more than 3% gain in Fort Smith metro home sales during the first half of 2024 appears to be reversing a trend that resulted in double-digit declines in 2023….
by Michael Tilley - June 6, 2024 11:53 am
Fort Smith metro home sales were unchanged in the first four months of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, but the value of home sales in the period…
by Michael Tilley - February 8, 2024 4:03 pm
Higher interest rates, fewer willing buyers and a “dramatic decrease” in homeowners willing to sell combined to push Fort Smith metro home sales down 14.5% in 2023, with Sebastian County…
by Michael Tilley - November 29, 2023 12:25 pm
Fort Smith metro home sales are down more than 16% through October compared with the same period in 2022, and are well below the record pace in 2021. The average…
by Michael Tilley - September 28, 2023 4:23 pm
Higher interest rates continue to reduce home sales activity in the Fort Smith metro. There were 2,219 homes sold in the Fort Smith metro between January and August, down 17.4%…
by Michael Tilley - June 12, 2023 1:26 pm
With interest rates more than double what they were two years ago, Fort Smith metro home sales are trending much lower than the records set in 2021. First quarter home…
by Michael Tilley - February 27, 2023 4:51 pm
Rising interest rates in 2022 put a halt on two years of record Fort Smith metro home sales. The metro had 3,827 homes sales in 2022, down 13% from 4,400…
by Michael Tilley - December 6, 2022 3:53 pm
The Fort Smith metro area had 3,309 homes sales in the January-October period, down 10.4% from 3,692 during the same period in 2021, a clear sign that rising interest rates…
by Michael Tilley - October 12, 2022 12:40 pm
Home sales in the Fort Smith metro are pulling back from record levels that began to emerge in 2020, with the number of homes sold down more than 7% in…
by Michael Tilley - March 31, 2022 4:05 pm
Homes sales and the combined value of sales in the Fort Smith metro are up in the first two months of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021, but…
by Michael Tilley - August 11, 2021 12:16 pm
The average home sale price in the Fort Smith metro in the first six months of 2021 was $189,697, up 26.3% compared to the same period in 2020. The highest…
by Michael Tilley - January 14, 2021 6:19 pm
After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the state and national economy in early 2020 and the Fort Smith metro lost 10.5% of its jobs in one month, it…
by Michael Tilley - November 16, 2020 2:46 pm
The pace of Fort Smith metro home sales increased in the past few months, with year-to-date sales through October up 14.6%. The sales growth through August was 11.2%. The value…
by Michael Tilley - September 10, 2020 12:08 pm
Low interest rates and the desire to find a better home within which to ride out the COVID-19 storm are some of the reasons behind a more than 11% rise…
by Michael Tilley - June 1, 2020 2:55 pm
The COVID-19 pandemic has not slowed Fort Smith metro home sales. Five counties in the Arkansas part of the metro and adjacent areas in eastern Oklahoma had 1,050 home sales…
by Michael Tilley - March 17, 2020 3:50 pm
Home buying activity in the Fort Smith metro was brisk in the first two months of 2020, with area homes sold totaling 486, up 17.4% over the 414 sold during…
by Michael Tilley - February 13, 2020 11:25 am
Home sales in the Fort Smith metro were up almost 3% in 2019, and the value of those homes were up 8%, with one area Realtor seeing increased interest from…