What was the latest Existing Home Sales print?
Existing Home Sales last printed 3.99M on Tue, Oct 13, 2026 against a 3.95M consensus forecast and a 3.98M prior, a +0.33 standard-deviation surprise. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
Existing Home Sales: release dates, results and history
Existing Home Sales last printed 3.99M on Tue, Oct 13, 2026 against a 3.95M consensus forecast and a 3.98M prior, a +0.33 standard-deviation surprise. 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.
NEXT RELEASE
Released monthly, ~third week for the prior month, usually around 10:00 AM ET. The desk posts the print the second it lands.
LATEST PRINT:
3.99M
actual
3.95M
forecast
3.98M
prior
+0.33
std dev vs forecast
IN LINE
Surprise vs forecast
+0.33
std dev
IN LINE
-2-10+1+2
Printed in line with forecast. That gap is only 0.33 times the size of a normal gap for this indicator.
The trend
OFFICIAL SERIES · LAST 15 OBSERVATIONS · UNITS SAAR
427000041000003930000
2025-072026-09
The official published series at its current vintage, revisions included, so the newest point can differ from the number as first printed. The release-by-release history, with the consensus forecast and standard-deviation surprise on every row, comes through the Helious API.
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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.99M | 3.95M | 3.98M | +0.33 | ABOVE FORECAST | |
| 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 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.99M | 3.93M | +0.06M | |
| 3.93M | 4.06M | -0.13M | |
| 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 |
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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FAQ
When is the next Existing Home Sales release?
Existing Home Sales is released monthly, ~third week for the prior month, usually around 10:00 AM ET. This page lists the next date as soon as it is scheduled.
Was the latest Existing Home Sales print a beat or a miss?
It printed in line with the consensus forecast: 3.99M against 3.95M, a +0.33 standard-deviation surprise. The standard deviation is measured against this indicator's own history of consensus misses, so the same gap means more on a series that rarely surprises.
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.