New Report Speculates that Las Vegas Home Prices Will Drop in Second Half of 2025
LAS VEGAS, NV – A new Redfin report speculates that prices of homes in the Las Vegas Valley could begin to drop in the second half of 2025, based on a variety of factors.
A senior economist at Redfin, Asad Khan, has said that the valley is currently experiencing a “weak homebuying season,” as evidenced by the fact that pending sales in May decreased 17.7 percent year-over-year, placing it third in terms of pending sales drops in the entire nation, behind only Fort Lauderdale at 18.6 percent and San Jose at 18.3 percent.
At the same time, Las Vegas registered the highest active listings growth in May among the top 50 metro areas in the U.S. The reason for low sales has been particularly weak demand in the Las Vegas region,” Khan said. “High mortgage rates and high prices are keeping a lid on demand, even though the stock of homes for sale is growing. Most sellers in the Las Vegas metro area have significant equity in their homes created during the run-up in prices, so few sellers are feeling the pressure to sell quickly with prices still rising.”
As per Las Vegas Realtors’ monthly report, in June the median sale price for an existing single-family house in Southern Nevada was $485,000; this ties the record high established during the first three months of 2025, after which that price dropped to $480,000 in April and May before rising back to its previous record high once again.
Amid these record high prices, however, sales in the region have continued to drop, which Khan attributes to not only affordability concerns, but also high interest rates on home mortgages; that, he said, will likely contribute to sales continuing to slow down, which will eventually translate to buyers having more negotiating power going forward.
There are still hundreds of thousands more home sellers than buyers nationwide. But some would-be sellers are sitting on the sidelines as the market tilts more and more in buyers’ favor in much of the country,” Khan said. “Pending home sales fell 2.3 percent year over year during the four weeks ending June 22, the biggest decline in three months. There are two key reasons why home sales are slow. One, housing costs are still soaring, with home-sale prices up 1.6 percent year over year to a record high and mortgage rates sitting near 7 percent. Two, many would-be buyers are holding off due to widespread economic uncertainty and recession jitters.”
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Christopher Boyle is an expert investigative journalist for SEARCHEN NETWORKS® and reports for independent news and media organizations in the United States. Christopher keeps a keen-eye on what’s happening in the Vegas real estate market on behalf of Shelter Realty Property Management