08/17/2026
✨MONDAY MARKET UPDATE✨
Last week felt a little more like a late-summer market in Omaha… still active, but buyers are being more selective.
Well-priced, move-in-ready homes are continuing to get attention quickly, while homes that miss the mark on price or condition are giving buyers a little more room to negotiate. Omaha remains competitive overall, with home values still running ahead of last year.
The biggest pressure point continues to be affordability. Mortgage rates moved higher again, which is making some buyers more payment-conscious and slowing activity nationally.
What this means in Omaha:
Sellers still have an advantage when the home is positioned correctly from day one… but this isn’t a market where simply putting a house on the market guarantees a quick sale.
For buyers, there are opportunities. A home that has been sitting a little longer may come with more negotiating room than we were seeing earlier in the season.
Omaha continues to be very neighborhood, price-point and property specific… which is why the strategy behind the move matters just as much as the market itself.
Julie Mott | Realtor® | BHGRE
Helping buyers and sellers across Omaha & the surrounding metro
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