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.
Only on the right house. Neither side has the upper hand in Nampa right now.
Neither side has the upper hand in Nampa. Buyers and sellers are evenly matched. The market will not hand you a discount. You have to find it in one specific listing.
About as many homes are under contract as are sitting unsold. Neither side is desperate. Your room to negotiate depends on the listing, not the market. Few sellers are dropping their price. Asking prices are holding firm. Your discount will come from one stale listing, not from the whole market.
A typical Nampa home takes 37 days to find a buyer. Half of them take even longer. That is 9% faster than a year ago. Those sellers are paying to own a house they want to sell. Search for homes listed 60+ days ago. There are 392 homes for sale in Nampa. That is 4.1 times the tightest month on record, but below the peak of 656. Supply is shrinking against last year.
Asking prices are 10.8% below their Jun 2023 peak. You are not buying at the top. Prices are still falling. Waiting has paid off so far. Let listings age, then come back lower. Nampa prices have risen in 92 of the last 108 months. Drops here have been short and shallow. Buying in a slow month has rarely hurt a long hold.
This market is turning. Which way is not settled yet. Check the monthly numbers above before you commit.
In Nampa, 26 out of every 100 households rent. Most own their home. The renter share is shrinking. Five years ago it was 31 in 100. Renter households here average 2.7 people. Families rent here. Buy bedrooms, not studios.
Households grew 21% in five years. The housing stock grew 20%. Demand is outrunning supply. Just 3.3% of homes sit empty. A well-priced rental fills fast here.
The median Nampa household earns $78,805 a year. Incomes here have grown 8.9% a year since 2019. Incomes are rising faster than home prices. Affordability is improving. A typical home costs 6.1 times the median income. Most locals cannot buy. That keeps rental demand deep. It also caps the rent they can pay. A tenant on the median income can pay about $1,970 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.
Only on the right house. Neither side has the upper hand in Nampa right now. 98 out of every 100 homes for sale have a buyer, 17% of sellers have cut their price, and a typical home takes 37 days to sell.
Asking prices are 10.8% below their Jun 2023 peak. You are not buying at the top. Prices are still falling. Waiting has paid off so far. Let listings age, then come back lower.
Assume +0.9% a year. Nampa grew 9.6% a year over the decade. Ignore that rate. Most of it landed in the 2020 and 2021 boom. Without the boom, Nampa grows about 0.9% a year. That is the number to type in. Prices rose 1.0% over the last year. That is a timing signal, not a trend.
A typical Nampa home takes 37 days to find a buyer. Half of them take even longer. That is 9% faster than a year ago. Those sellers are paying to own a house they want to sell. Search for homes listed 60+ days ago.
In Nampa, 26 out of every 100 households rent. Most own their home. The renter share is shrinking. Five years ago it was 31 in 100. Just 3.3% of homes sit empty. A well-priced rental fills fast here.
A tenant on the median income can pay about $1,970 a month. That is the standard 30% affordability line. Rents above it thin your tenant pool fast. The median Nampa household earns $78,805 a year.
Nampa has four 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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