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The Phoenix Metro housing market continues to tell two very different stories.
The sales market has stabilized, but buyers still hold meaningful leverage. Inventory is no longer rising rapidly, yet home prices remain slightly below last year as mortgage rates approach 7%.
The rental market looks considerably healthier. Available rental inventory is roughly 20% lower than last year, rents have returned to modest growth, and homes are still leasing faster than they did in August 2025.
The bigger story, however, is increasingly happening below the metro average. Scottsdale and Chandler look very different from Buckeye, Maricopa, and San Tan Valley—and new construction helps explain why.
Phoenix’s sales market has stopped deteriorating, but it has not meaningfully recovered.
One year ago, active inventory was still 24.5% higher than the year before. Today, inventory is essentially flat. The surge in available homes that defined much of 2025 has largely worked its way through the market.
Normally, falling inventory would create stronger pricing pressure.
That isn’t happening.
The median sold price per square foot slipped again in August and remains slightly below last year. Mortgage rates rising to 6.87% continue to limit what buyers can afford, leaving sellers with less pricing power despite more balanced inventory.
The result is a relatively stable but buyer-friendly market—not a distressed one.
The metro average also hides an important source of competition: new construction.
Resale inventory reported through ARMLS does not include every new home buyers can choose from. That matters most in fast-growing outer-ring communities.
Buckeye, Maricopa, San Tan Valley, Surprise, Apache Junction, and Coolidge continue to experience significant single-family development. In those markets, a resale seller may be competing against a builder offering a brand-new home, closing-cost assistance, or a mortgage-rate buydown.
That helps explain why some outer Valley markets remain weak even when resale inventory is declining.
By contrast, mature markets such as Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, and Mesa have far less new single-family construction competing with existing homeowners.
This divide is likely to remain important as Arizona continues looking for ways to make new housing easier to build. We recently covered Arizona’s HB 2999 and its effort to reduce infrastructure costs for new communities.
The West Valley is also preparing for significant long-term growth. The Loop 303 extension now underway in Goodyear will improve access to future employment and housing areas stretching toward Buckeye and the southwest Valley.
More construction is good for long-term housing availability—but in the near term, it creates additional competition for resale homeowners.
The rental market has undergone a much more dramatic change.
In August 2025, rental inventory was 17.6% higher than the previous year.
Today, it is roughly 20% lower.
That represents a major swing in landlord competition.
Rent growth remains modest, but the direction has changed. Rents declined year over year through much of 2025 and early 2026 before stabilizing this summer. August’s $1.39 per square foot is the highest metro reading since spring 2025.
The market is tightening—but it is not overheating.
Median rental DOM increased from 28 days in July to 33 days in August as the summer leasing season ended. That seasonal slowdown is normal, and homes are still leasing faster than they did last August.
For landlords, the more important question this fall will be whether rental inventory remains substantially below 2025 levels.
The same geographic divide exists on the rental side.
Scottsdale, San Tan Valley, Peoria, Phoenix, Gilbert, and Mesa currently show some of the strongest rental fundamentals, generally combining lower inventory with healthier rent or leasing trends.
Tempe, Casa Grande, and Maricopa are more challenging.
New multifamily construction adds another layer.
Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Tempe, and San Tan Valley all have meaningful apartment or multifamily supply in the pipeline. That means today’s tight rental conditions should not automatically be projected several years into the future.
Other markets are moving the opposite direction. Multifamily permitting has slowed considerably in areas including Surprise, Gilbert, and Scottsdale, potentially creating a more favorable future supply environment for existing landlords.
Pinal County provides a good example of why investors need to watch both current inventory and future construction. We previously examined the county’s rapid multifamily development pipeline and what it could mean for Arizona rental investors.
Phoenix’s current weakness should also be viewed in a longer-term context.
The Valley continues adding residents even though population growth has slowed from its post-pandemic pace.
We recently looked at how Phoenix population growth continues to outperform most major U.S. metros.
That matters because today’s weak homebuying activity does not necessarily mean weak underlying demand for housing.
People still need somewhere to live.
At mortgage rates approaching 7%, some households that might otherwise purchase a home are remaining renters longer. That helps explain why the sales market can remain soft at the same time rental inventory is tightening.
Phoenix is not experiencing one housing market.
It is experiencing several.
The luxury and established portions of the Valley continue to outperform, while builder-heavy West Valley and Pinal County markets remain much more favorable to buyers.
On the rental side, significantly lower inventory has created healthier conditions for landlords, but rent growth remains modest and leasing activity should slow seasonally through the fall.
The simplest way to describe the Phoenix housing market today is:
Weak demand to buy does not mean weak demand for housing.
Unless mortgage rates decline significantly, we expect the sales market to remain relatively flat and buyer-friendly through the near term.
Rental fundamentals should remain stronger than sales fundamentals, particularly if available inventory stays well below last year’s levels.
For rental owners, that makes accurate pricing increasingly important. The Valley-wide numbers are useful, but today’s results are highly dependent on the specific city, neighborhood, property type, and competition surrounding an individual home.
If you own a rental property in the Phoenix Metro, Home Ladder Property Management can provide a free rental analysis to help determine how your property compares with today’s market.
