Prices, inventory, and demand — distilled every month into one clear verdict: buyer’s market or seller’s. The investor’s read, before you make an offer.
Yes, if you negotiate. Buyers have the upper hand in Mobile right now.
You have the upper hand in Mobile. Most homes for sale still have no buyer. Many sellers have already dropped their price once. Sellers are competing for you. Use it.
Only 52 out of every 100 homes for sale have found a buyer. The other 48 are still waiting. Your offer may be the only one on the table. About 1 in 5 sellers has already dropped their price. Each one has learned their first price was too high. Start below their new price, not their old one.
A typical Mobile home takes 68 days to find a buyer. Half of them take even longer. That is 8% slower than a year ago. Those sellers are paying to own a house they want to sell. Search for homes listed 90+ days ago. There are 861 homes for sale in Mobile. That is 2.7 times the tightest month on record, but below the peak of 1,517. Supply is shrinking against last year.
Asking prices are at their highest point on record. You are buying at the top. Underwrite it that way. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller. Mobile prices have risen in 102 of the last 108 months. Drops here have been short and shallow. Buying in a slow month has rarely hurt a long hold.
The discount is already here. It is not getting bigger. Buy now while sellers are still weak. Waiting for a lower price stopped working a year ago.
In Mobile, 42 out of every 100 households rent. That is nearly half. That share has held steady for five years. Renter households average 2.2 people. Two and three bedrooms fit the typical renter.
Households held flat in five years. The housing stock shrank 1%. Demand is outrunning supply. 13.6% of homes sit empty. Tenants have options. Budget extra weeks of vacancy between leases.
The median Mobile household earns $57,345 a year. Incomes here have grown 4.1% a year since 2019. Incomes and home prices are rising in step. A typical home costs 4.4 times the median income. That is the national middle. Neither cash flow nor appreciation is free here. A tenant on the median income can pay about $1,434 a month. That is the standard 30% affordability line. Rents above it thin your tenant pool fast.
That is the market, not your address. Run an address through the app to see its rent estimate and cash flow.
Yes, if you negotiate. Buyers have the upper hand in Mobile right now. 52 out of every 100 homes for sale have a buyer, 19% of sellers have cut their price, and a typical home takes 68 days to sell.
Asking prices are at their highest point on record. You are buying at the top. Underwrite it that way. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller.
Assume +4.6% a year. Mobile has grown about 4.6% a year for five years and for ten. That is a durable trend, not a boom artifact. It is a fair long-run input. Prices were flat over the last year.
A typical Mobile home takes 68 days to find a buyer. Half of them take even longer. That is 8% slower than a year ago. Those sellers are paying to own a house they want to sell. Search for homes listed 90+ days ago.
In Mobile, 42 out of every 100 households rent. That is nearly half. That share has held steady for five years. 13.6% of homes sit empty. Tenants have options. Budget extra weeks of vacancy between leases.
A tenant on the median income can pay about $1,434 a month. That is the standard 30% affordability line. Rents above it thin your tenant pool fast. The median Mobile household earns $57,345 a year.
36607. Only 48 out of 100 homes there have a buyer. 42% of sellers there have cut their price, and a typical home takes 86 days to sell.
Where it isn't: 36609 ranks #7,576 in the country for buyer demand. Expect the least room to negotiate there.
ZIP 36605 is on both lists. That is rare. It is the one place in Mobile where leverage and growth overlap.
| ZIP | $/sqft, 2 yrs | $/sqft now | Buyers per home | For sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36603 | +120.7% | $103 | 0.50 | 19 |
| 36610 | +31.0% | $48 | 0.25 | 18 |
| 36605 | +23.9% | $116 | 0.34 | 55 |
| 36617 | +23.3% | $87 | 0.79 | 14 |
| 36611 | +17.2% | $92 | 0.63 | 19 |
Computed from each ZIP's own ten-year history. ZIPs with fewer than 10 homes for sale are excluded: a median across a handful of listings is noise, not a signal.
Mobile has 32 ZIP codes. Each links to its live market dashboard.
Closest matches on asking price, price per square foot, days to sell, buyer demand, and price cuts.
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