{"id":19415,"date":"2026-10-26T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/?p=19415"},"modified":"2026-10-26T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:47:03","slug":"manatee-county-market-update-for-single-family-homes-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/2026\/10\/26\/manatee-county-market-update-for-single-family-homes-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatee County Market Update for Single-Family Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manatee County\u2019s single-family market cooled slightly in sales activity in September 2026 while prices kept rising. Closed sales fell 3.9% from a year earlier to 636 homes. New pending sales, homes that went under contract during the month, dropped 3.6% to 559, which suggests closings may stay a bit below last year\u2019s pace in the months ahead. Even so, the median sale price rose 3.2% year over year to $485,000, a sign that demand remains solid enough to support prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mnt2610-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mnt2610-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mnt2610-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mnt2610-766x401.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mnt2610.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supply trends were mixed. Sellers added 741 new listings, up 8.8% from September 2025, showing more homeowners are willing to put their homes on the market. Active inventory still slipped 1.7% to 2,610 homes, because new listings were offset by homes that sold or were taken off the market. With fewer homes for sale than a year ago and prices still rising, conditions remain steady rather than shifting clearly toward buyers or sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cash sales made up 28.3% of closed sales, down from 29.9% a year earlier. That small decline suggests a slightly larger share of buyers are financing their purchases. Overall, the market is fairly balanced and stable: there are somewhat fewer transactions than last year, but prices are holding firm and more new listings are coming onto the market. The infographic above, from Florida Realtors, contains more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manatee County\u2019s single-family market cooled slightly in sales activity in September 2026 while prices kept rising. Closed sales fell 3.9% from a year earlier to 636 homes. New pending sales, homes that went under contract during the month, dropped 3.6% to 559, which suggests closings may stay a bit below last year\u2019s pace in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,26,1],"tags":[7,12,13,9,16,15,20,19],"class_list":["post-19415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-buying","category-home-prices","category-home-selling","category-real-estate","tag-bradenton","tag-home-buying","tag-home-selling","tag-lakewood-ranch","tag-manatee-county","tag-real-estate","tag-real-estate-agent","tag-realtor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19417,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415\/revisions\/19417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}