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Florida’s housing market corrections continue to lose intensity—see these 8 charts

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? While softness—and even outright weakness—remains in parts of Florida’s housing market, the intensity of the correction and recalibration process there has been waning throughout 2026, as ResiClub has been covering . And some homebuilders who’ve already made aggressive…

Florida’s housing market corrections continue to lose intensity—see these 8 charts

While softness remains in parts of Florida's housing market, the intensity of the correction and recalibration process has been waning throughout 2026, according to ResiClub's coverage. Homebuilders in higher-end markets have reported finding the market in many of their Florida communities. Year-over-year shifts in single-family and condo home prices for July 2024 to July 2025 and July 2025 to July 2026 are shown in the accompanying charts.

The intensity of Florida's home price correction has eased, with some Florida metros even returning to mildly positive seasonally adjusted month-over-month home price gains. Markets experiencing declines, such as Punta Gorda and Cape Coral, now have smaller declines compared to seven months ago. The easing intensity is attributed to falling froth and overvaluation, healing fundamentals, and slowing spec construction by builders.

Sellers who aren't in financial distress are waiting out the weakness. Active inventory for sale has stalled in many Florida markets, and inventory is down year-over-year in most areas. The Pandemic Housing Boom vulnerability was significantly larger in Florida, with home prices surging +51% compared to U.S. home prices rising +41% during the same period.

Factors such as migration surge fizzling, new structural safety rules, hurricane damage, and tightened condo underwriting have contributed to supply-demand equilibrium shifts, revealing downside risk and pushing some Florida pockets into post-Pandemic Housing Boom corrections.

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