Scottsdale housing market: what the numbers say right now

In October 2026, 1,355 single-family homes were listed for sale across the City of Scottsdale, down from 1,441 a year earlier, and 317 homes in the city closed each month. In October 2026, Cromford's months of supply figure for Scottsdale, which measures how long the current homes for sale would last at that pace, stood at 3.7.

I'm Jen Keene, a REALTOR® with eXp Realty Luxury in Scottsdale, AZ, and I'm the agent people call at every stage of their life. These are Cromford's numbers for the whole city, and I checked them on October 3, 2026, because a number from last spring, or one pulled from a different market, won't tell you what's happening here right now.

In October 2026, homes that closed in Scottsdale sold in a median of 52 days from listing to close, and the median home went under contract for the first time within 27 days of being listed. Closed sales went for a median of 96.29% of list price, 347 homes were under contract, the median sale price was up 5.2% from a year earlier, and price per square foot was up 3.1% over the same period.

Cromford tracks Scottsdale's single-family homes citywide, separate from the ZIP codes inside it, and the citywide count covers everything from Old Town to the far north in one number. In October 2026, the city had 1,355 active listings, down from 1,441 a year earlier, and 347 of those were already under contract.

In October 2026, 4,446 homes had closed in Scottsdale over the trailing twelve months, a pace Cromford put at about 317 sales a month. That trailing-year count and that monthly pace are the two numbers behind the 3.7 months of supply figure above.

Months of supply is the number I'd start with. In October 2026, it stood at 3.7 for Scottsdale, and it only measures how long the current homes for sale would last at the current pace of sales. It doesn't say whether a specific house is priced right, and it doesn't predict what happens to any one offer.

In October 2026, the 96.29% sale-to-list figure for Scottsdale was the median gap between what a home asked and what it closed for, across every home that sold that month in the city. A home in Old Town and a home in the far north are both counted in that same median, right along with every other sale.

Days to first contract and median days on market are measuring two different things. In October 2026, the median home in Scottsdale went under contract for the first time within 27 days of listing, while homes that had already closed sold in a median of 52 days from listing to close. Homes still active and waiting had been listed a median of 49 days so far.

In October 2026, Cromford's listing success rate for Scottsdale was 76.8%, meaning that share of listings made it all the way to closing instead of expiring or being pulled off the market. Run any number here through those four ideas, months of supply, sale-to-list, days to contract versus days on market, and listing success rate, before you use it to make a decision about a specific house.

In October 2026, active listings in Scottsdale were priced at a median of $515.93 a square foot, and homes that closed over the trailing twelve months went for a median of $463.41 a square foot. Those are two different groups of homes, what's currently asking and what's already sold, and they're measured separately.

In October 2026, the median sale price in Scottsdale was up 5.2% from a year earlier, and median price per square foot was up 3.1% over that same period. In October 2026, sellers closed at a median of 96.29% of list price.

Scottsdale is one city inside a much larger region, and the wider numbers measure something different than the citywide figures above. In August 2026, the most recent month the Arizona MLS has published for Greater Phoenix, the region held 23,406 active listings against 5,471 closed sales, for 4.3 months of supply. In August 2026, 8,173 new listings came on the market across the region, and 6,913 homes were under contract.

In September 2026, Realtor.com put Maricopa County's median asking price at $499,000, with homes spending a median of 61 days on market and asking prices down 4.95% from the same month a year earlier. That figure covers every price range across the whole county, while Scottsdale's own median sale price, up 5.2% in October 2026, covers only homes inside the city. The two numbers measure different things and moved in different directions, and neither one describes the other.

A regional headline about Greater Phoenix or Maricopa County doesn't tell you what's happening to a specific Scottsdale listing, and the Scottsdale citywide number above doesn't tell you what's happening in the rest of the Valley. If you're weighing a Scottsdale purchase against a house somewhere else in the metro area, start from each place's own figures rather than averaging the two together.

The most common mistake is treating one citywide number as the number for every part of Scottsdale. The city runs thirty-one miles north to south, and the area inside the city line covers neighborhoods built over more than fifty years at very different prices. The citywide figures above are a median across all of it, and what happens to a specific home depends on the homes closest to it, not the whole city.

If you want the numbers for a specific part of Scottsdale, the north Scottsdale report breaks out the 85255 and 85262 ZIP codes separately, and the DC Ranch report covers DC Ranch's four villages, Country Club, Desert Camp, Desert Parks and Silverleaf, inside that ZIP code. Both move at a different pace than the citywide number above.

The second mistake is using an old number. Every figure above lags behind the real market by a few weeks, and a months of supply figure from the spring describes a market that's already moved. Check the date before you repeat a number.

In October 2026, the median home in Scottsdale went under contract within 27 days of listing, and sellers closed at 96.29% of list price. That's fast, and it means a home priced right doesn't sit around waiting for you to decide. Here's how buying works in Arizona, start to close, including what you sign before you tour a house and when your earnest money is genuinely at risk.

Before any of that starts, I walk every buyer through pre-approval and the buyer broker agreement, so you know what you're agreeing to and what it costs before you see a single house.

In October 2026, homes that sold in Scottsdale closed in a median of 52 days, and 76.8% of listings made it all the way to closing instead of expiring or getting pulled off the market. Where your home lands against the 96.29% sale-to-list figure comes down to the price you choose on day one, built from what's closed near your home rather than the citywide median. I bring three prices to a listing appointment and let you choose.

If you want the number for your specific home rather than the citywide figure above, that starts here, and it costs you nothing.

If you're selling in Scottsdale and buying your next home here too, you're on both sides of the same market at once. In October 2026, that market sat at 3.7 months of supply citywide, and a fast sale on your current home doesn't automatically mean a fast purchase on the next one, because the home you're buying is being watched by other buyers under the same conditions. We work out the order of those two moves, which one goes first and what has to be true for the other to follow, before either one goes live.

These numbers cover single-family homes across the City of Scottsdale in October 2026, and they'll go stale soon, so check the date on any figure before you rely on it for a specific house.

If you're watching a specific part of the city rather than the whole thing, the north Scottsdale or DC Ranch numbers linked above will tell you more than the citywide figures here.

Call me at (480) 203-6605 or get in touch, and tell me which part of Scottsdale you're watching and what you're trying to do. I'll pull the current numbers for that specific area before we talk price.