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 Asheville right now.
You have the upper hand in Asheville. Most homes for sale still have no buyer. Many sellers have already dropped their price once. There are more homes for sale than at any time in ten years. Sellers are competing for you. Use it.
Only 30 out of every 100 homes for sale have found a buyer. The other 70 are still waiting. Your offer may be the only one on the table. About 1 in 4 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 Asheville home takes 59 days to find a buyer. Half of them take even longer. Those sellers are paying to own a house they want to sell. Search for homes listed 60+ days ago. There are 912 homes for sale in Asheville. That is the most in ten years. It is 6 times the low of Mar 2022. Every one of them competes with the house you want.
Asking prices are 26.5% below their Feb 2022 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. Asheville prices rose in only 71 of the last 108 months. This market goes up and down. Timing matters here. Growth will not rescue a bad price.
There is no rush. Prices are still coming down. Watch the homes you like. Come back after they cut. Let the seller move first.
Yes, if you negotiate. Buyers have the upper hand in Asheville right now. 0.30 out of every 100 homes for sale have a buyer, 25% of sellers have cut their price, and a typical home takes 59 days to sell.
Asking prices are 26.5% below their Feb 2022 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.
-0.2%/yr. 1 year: -6.4% · 5 years: -0.2% · ten years: +5.1%. Do not use the ten-year rate. Most of that growth landed in the 2020 and 2021 boom. The five-year rate is what Asheville does without one. Underwrite closer to -0.2%. Measure growth per square foot. Asheville median list price grew 3.3% a year, but price per square foot grew 5.1%. The gap is smaller homes, not weaker growth. The house you buy will not shrink. The one-year rate is a timing signal. It is not an underwriting input.
A typical Asheville home takes 59 days to find a buyer. Half of them take even longer. Those sellers are paying to own a house they want to sell. Search for homes listed 60+ days ago.
28803. Only 21 out of 100 homes there have a buyer, 31% have cut their price, and a typical home takes 61 days to sell.
Where it isn't: 28805 ranks #6,755 in the country for buyer demand. Expect the least room to negotiate there.
ZIP 28801 is on both lists. That is rare. It is the one place in Asheville where leverage and growth overlap.
| ZIP | $/sqft, 2 yrs | $/sqft now | Buyers per home | For sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28804 | -0.8% | $349 | 0.23 | 213 |
| 28805 | -3.8% | $293 | 0.46 | 97 |
| 28801 | -4.4% | $480 | 0.48 | 101 |
| 28806 | -6.7% | $316 | 0.30 | 229 |
| 28803 | -11.8% | $309 | 0.21 | 272 |
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.
Closest matches on asking price, price per square foot, days to sell, buyer demand, and price cuts.
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