Existing Home Sales Release Dates 2026 and Market Reaction
The next Existing Home Sales is scheduled for Monday, October 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM ET, an estimated date the agency has not yet published. On 229 Existing home sales days since 1999, SPY's move landed in the biggest quarter of all trading days 26.6% of the time, against 25% for any day, within two standard errors (±5.7 points) of chance: by this measure a Existing home sales day is indistinguishable from a normal session. The median move was 0.63% against 0.55% on all days.
August 2026, released Sep 10, 2026
Upcoming Existing home sales dates
- Monday, October 12, 202610:00 AM ET · estimated
Schedule: release dates in our indicator record. Release record since 1999.
Does the market move on release day?
On 229 Existing home sales days since 1999, SPY's move landed in the biggest quarter of all trading days 26.6% of the time, against 25% for any day, within two standard errors (±5.7 points) of chance: by this measure a Existing home sales day is indistinguishable from a normal session. The median move was 0.63% against 0.55% on all days. SPY closed higher on 47.2% of release days against 53.9% of all days. The 10-year Treasury yield moved a median 2.5 bp either way, against 3.2 bp on all days.
When the headline Existing Home Sales came in above its prior reading (119 days), release days carried an average SPY return of −0.10%; when it came in below (105 days), an average SPY return of −0.23%.
The top quarter means a close-to-close SPY move of 1.04% or more either way, the 75th percentile of every trading day since 1993. Headline values are today's revised figures, and no consensus forecasts are used, so above and below compare each print with the previous print. This is not a surprise study: markets react to the gap between a release and what was expected.
Recent Existing home sales releases
| Released | Period | Existing Home Sales | Prior | SPY | 10-year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | August 2026 | 3.98M | 4.06M | −0.59% | +10.7 bp |
| Aug 11, 2026 | July 2026 | 4.06M | 4.13M | −0.32% | −1.5 bp |
| Jul 9, 2026 | June 2026 | 4.13M | 4.19M | +0.85% | −3.0 bp |
| Jun 9, 2026 | May 2026 | 4.19M | 4.04M | −0.29% | −2.4 bp |
| May 21, 2026 | April 2026 | 4.04M | 4.01M | +0.20% | +1.4 bp |
| Apr 13, 2026 | March 2026 | 4.01M | 4.13M | +0.98% | −2.0 bp |
| Mar 10, 2026 | February 2026 | 4.13M | 4.02M | −0.16% | 0.0 bp |
| Feb 12, 2026 | January 2026 | 4.02M | 4.27M | −1.54% | −6.8 bp |
| Jan 20, 2026 | December 2025 | 4.27M | 4.09M | −2.04% | +6.4 bp |
| Nov 20, 2025 | October 2025 | 4.11M | 4.08M | −1.52% | −2.7 bp |
| Oct 21, 2025 | September 2025 | 4.08M | 4.03M | 0.00% | −2.3 bp |
| Aug 20, 2025 | July 2025 | 4.03M | 3.98M | −0.27% | −0.6 bp |
| Jul 21, 2025 | June 2025 | 3.98M | 4.04M | +0.19% | −6.0 bp |
| Jun 20, 2025 | May 2025 | 4.04M | 4.00M | −0.53% | −2.2 bp |
| May 21, 2025 | April 2025 | 4.00M | 4.02M | −1.69% | +11.5 bp |
| Feb 20, 2025 | January 2025 | 4.09M | 4.29M | −0.42% | −3.5 bp |
| Nov 20, 2024 | October 2024 | 4.03M | 3.90M | +0.03% | +2.7 bp |
| Oct 21, 2024 | September 2024 | 3.90M | 3.93M | −0.16% | +10.9 bp |
| Sep 20, 2024 | August 2024 | 3.93M | 3.98M | −0.48% | −1.2 bp |
| Aug 20, 2024 | July 2024 | 3.98M | 3.93M | −0.16% | −4.9 bp |
| Jun 20, 2024 | May 2024 | 4.06M | 4.08M | −0.27% | +3.7 bp |
| May 21, 2024 | April 2024 | 4.08M | 4.12M | +0.25% | −2.3 bp |
| Mar 22, 2024 | February 2024 | 4.38M | 4.00M | −0.19% | −5.3 bp |
| Feb 20, 2024 | January 2024 | 4.00M | 3.88M | −0.55% | −2.0 bp |
Newest first. Values are today's revised data; a dash means no matched value.
What it measures
The monthly count of previously owned homes sold, about nine in ten of all US home sales.
- Published by
- National Association of Realtors (NAR)
- Release time
- 10:00 AM ET
- Schedule source
- release dates in our indicator record
- Indicator pages
- Existing Home Sales
Frequently asked questions
When is the next Existing home sales release?
The next Existing Home Sales is scheduled for Monday, October 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM ET, an estimated date the agency has not yet published. Source: National Association of Realtors.
What time is the Existing home sales released?
The National Association of Realtors publishes the Existing Home Sales at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on its scheduled release days.
Does the stock market move on Existing home sales days?
On 229 Existing home sales days since 1999, SPY's move landed in the biggest quarter of all trading days 26.6% of the time, against 25% for any day, within two standard errors (±5.7 points) of chance: by this measure a Existing home sales day is indistinguishable from a normal session. The median move was 0.63% against 0.55% on all days. SPY closed higher on 47.2% of release days against 53.9% of all days. The 10-year Treasury yield moved a median 2.5 bp either way, against 3.2 bp on all days.
How did the market react to the last Existing home sales release?
On Thursday, September 10, 2026, SPY moved −0.59% close to close and the 10-year Treasury yield +10.7 bp. The headline Existing Home Sales read 3.98M against 4.06M before.
August 2026, released Sep 10, 2026