Published October 18, 2026 in Market Update

Port St. Lucie / Tradition has fewer homes for sale, not fewer deals

By Jason Coley

Real estate, Port St. Lucie / Tradition DOTW

Team Coley has watched this market for twenty years. The number that matters most right now is not the price. It is inventory. The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 2,172 homes for sale across Port St. Lucie / Tradition in the three months ending August 31, 2026. That is down 11.2% from the same months of 2025. Nationally, Redfin reported in October 2026 that sellers outnumbered buyers by 62.6%. Here, fewer homes are competing for the same buyers. That is a different story.

Sales went up while inventory went down. The Real Estate Data Aggregator recorded 1,399 homes sold across the market, up 4% from a year before. Pending sales rose too, up 0.7%. New listings edged up just 0.4%. More buyers are finding homes. Fewer homes are sitting on the shelf.

What the national picture looks like

Redfin reported in October 2026 that an estimated 928,892 homebuyers were active nationally in September, the lowest count since 2013. Sellers numbered 1,510,784, the most since March 2020. Redfin also reported the weekly average mortgage rate hit 7.4% on October 8, 2026. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported U.S. house prices rose 2.6% from July 2025 to July 2026. Port St. Lucie / Tradition is not immune to those pressures. But its inventory drop tells a local story the national numbers do not.

How each ZIP code moved

Where things moved fastest

ZIP 34953 had the shortest median time on market. The Real Estate Data Aggregator put it at 71 days, 10 days shorter than a year before. Sellers there got 98.6% of list price on average. ZIP 34984 dropped 14 days off its median, landing at 73 days. ZIP 34986 cut 12 days, though its median of 99 days is still the second longest in the market.

Where prices moved

Prices did not move the same way everywhere. The Real Estate Data Aggregator showed ZIP 34984 up 6.9% to a median of $435,000. ZIP 34952 rose 2.9% to $350,000. ZIP 34986 dropped 9.1% to $363,500. ZIP 34987 fell 4.7% to $444,990. ZIP 34983 slipped 2.4% to $356,200. ZIP 34953 dipped 1.2% to $411,700. Some of that reflects the mix of homes that sold, not just the market moving.

Quick contracts: who went under in two weeks

The Real Estate Data Aggregator tracked the share of homes that went under contract within two weeks of listing. ZIP 34953 led at 24.5%, up 3.7 points from a year before. ZIP 34983 was close at 24.3%. ZIP 34952 hit 23.2%, up 7 points. ZIP 34984 came in at 23.1%, up 7.6 points. ZIP 34986 was 16.9%, up 6.4 points. ZIP 34987 was 10.8%, up 1.5 points. Every ZIP improved. That matters.

Supply is tightening, not loosening

Every ZIP in this market saw months of supply fall from a year ago. The Real Estate Data Aggregator put ZIP 34987 down 1.8 months to 4.9. ZIP 34986 dropped 0.9 months to 5.5, still the highest in the market. ZIP 34984 and 34953 each fell 0.7 months, to 4.7 and 4.4. ZIP 34983 fell 0.5 months to 4.4. ZIP 34952 dropped 0.2 months to 4.9. Less supply means less competition among sellers, not more.

One street can read very differently from the ZIP code around it. Prices, speed and competition shift block by block. These numbers are the starting point, not the whole answer. I am grateful you read this far.