Strength 4 / 5
$490K
Hoover median sale price fell back under $500K — now $490K
Dropping back below $500K re-opens a buyer pool that had been priced out — and puts sellers on notice that the last few months' comps are no longer defensible.
Reports › Weekly · 2026-10-25
Alabama real estate — week of Oct 23, 2026
Alabama's major metros split this week: 2 negative, 10 positive on year-over-year median sale price. Range this week: florence-muscle-shoals at -3.3% YoY to gadsden at +5.9%.
Headline numbers
Anniston
$204K -2.5%
Auburn
$382K +2.5%
Birmingham
$318K +4.2%
Daphne
$384K +0.5%
Decatur
$261K +4.5%
Dothan
$249K +3.7%
Florence
$252K -3.3%
Gadsden
$227K +5.9%
Huntsville
$332K +2.4%
Mobile
$238K +0.2%
Montgomery
$273K +3.0%
Tuscaloosa
$293K +3.7%
This week's signals
Strength 4 / 5
6.6 mo
Birmingham supply now 6.6 months — buyer's market
Six-plus months of supply in Birmingham — this is a buyer's market by the textbook definition.
Source divergence
ZIP-level reconciliation will appear here once curated ZIP coverage lands for Alabama.
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