ATTOM released its Q3 2025 U.S. Home Sales Report This Week in Real Estate, underscoring continued strong profitability for home sellers, with average margins approaching 50 percent, well above the pre-2020 norm of approximately 30 percent. Builder confidence also improved significantly in October, reaching its highest level since April, as all components of the National Association of Homebuilders Housing Market Index posted gains. Additionally, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate held near its lowest point since late 2022, signaling favorable financing conditions. Below are key events from the second week of October impacting our business:
HOME SALES PROFITS UP IN THIRD QUARTER TO NEAR 50 PERCENT MARGIN. ATTOM released its third quarter 2025 U.S. Home Sales Report on Thursday, which shows that homeowners made a 49.9 percent profit on typical single-family home and condo sales during the third quarter of the year. That was up slightly from the 49.3 percent profit margin posted in the previous quarter but still below the 55.4 percent typical profit sellers saw in the third quarter of 2024. Prior to 2020, home sellers saw profit margins of around 30 percent. Meanwhile, home prices have continued to rise. The median national sales price in the third quarter of 2025 was $370,000, up 1.2 percent from the previous quarter and 3.4 percent from the same time last year. The typical home sales netted $123,100 in raw profit, up 1.9 percent from the previous quarter but down 3.5 percent from the third quarter of 2024, in a reminder that the market is slightly below its recent peak. Overall, U.S. home sellers continued to see strong profits in the third quarter of 2025, with margins holding steady near 50 percent amid rising home prices. While gains remain below the peak levels reached during the pandemic, recent quarters suggest a more stable, sustainable market environment. Continued buyer demand, bolstered by moderating mortgage rates, may be helping to maintain solid returns for sellers across much of the country. Read the full story here.
AMID MARKET CHALLENGES, BUILDER EXPECTATIONS RISE IN OCTOBER. Even as builders continue to grapple with market and macroeconomic uncertainty, sentiment levels posted a solid gain in October. Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 37 in October, up five points from September and the highest reading since April, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). All the HMI subindices rose in October. The component measuring current sales conditions increased four points to 38, the index gauging future sales jumped nine points to 54, surpassing the 50-point breakeven mark for the first time since last January, and the gauge charting traffic of prospective buyers posted a four-point gain to 25. Read the full story here.
RATES HOLD STEADY JUST ABOVE 3 YEAR LOWS. The average top-tier 30-year fixed rate was unchanged on Friday despite the bond market being slightly weaker. By remaining unchanged, the average rate is officially in line with the lowest levels in just over a month. Apart from that, there are only a handful of days with lower rates going all the way back to late 2022. Read the full story here.
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