NWA’s Top Builders

We’re back with builder data through the first 9 months of 2025 in NWA. Also, we provide updates and analysis on the latest Fed moves.

📊 Benton County Home Sales (YTD 2025)

• 🏠 Total Units Sold: 5,581

• ⚖️ Median Price: $386,630

• 💵 Average Price: $468,600

👷‍♂️Benton County Top Builders by Homes Sold YTD

📈💰Benton County Top Builders by Total Sales YTD

• Rausch Coleman leads on unit count, but the high-end focus of Buffington Homes continues to put them on top for sales.

• Rausch Coleman jumped ahead of DR Horton to claim the second spot on total sales.

📊 Washington County Home Sales (YTD 2025)

• 🏠 Total Units Sold: 3,350

• ⚖️ Median Price: $349,000

• 💵 Average Price: $416,101

👷‍♂️Washington County Top Builders by Homes Sold

📈💰Washington County Top Builders by Total Sales YTD

NWA’s Hottest Subdivisions

🏘️ Benton County - Top 5 Subdivisions by Units Sold YTD

💰 Benton County - Top Average Sales Price (at least 5 sales)

🏘️ Washington County - Top 5 Subdivisions by Units Sold

• High Volume Subdivisions - Every high volume subdivision is priced below the county median price.

💰 Top Subdivisions by Average Sales Price (≥5 Sales)

📌 Key Regional Insights

• Benton County = Volume + Luxury. It carries two-thirds of NWA’s transactions and most of its $1 M+ sales.

• Washington County = Affordability + Momentum. Its builders are scaling faster, closing the gap in unit count, and maintaining accessible pricing.

• Median prices are 11% lower in Washington County.

📰 Real Estate Market Insight

• 🏛️ Government Shutdown - We are now in day 31 of the shutdown. For perspective, the longest shutdown was 34 days. Pressure is increasing by the day. Markets are indicating a resolution may occur between November 4th-7th.

• 🏛️ Shutdown Implications - Real estate closings can be delayed during a government shutdown. This is due to the inability to resolve IRS matters or liens, flood insurance policies and renewals can be delayed, or delays can occur on government backed loans such as FHA, RD, and VA loans.

• 📉 30 Year Mortgage Rate - The national average is 6.33%. 

• 🏦✂️  Rate Cut - As predicted, the Fed lowered the Fed funds rate by 25bps. The markets are predicting a 66% chance we’ll get another 25bs on December 9th.

• 💸 Fed Ends QT Early - During the rate announcement, the Fed threw in another nugget that most overlooked. The Fed announced they will end Quantitative Tightening (‘QT’) in December. Ending QT means that the Fed will stop shrinking their balance sheet and allow maturing bonds to be reinvested into securities. The policy shift is intended to provide liquidity to the financial markets and lower rates on shorter term bonds. This could positively benefit mortgage rates.

• 🏠 MBS Market Watch - There is an interesting idea being floated around that the Fed could end QT in the mortgage backed securities (‘MBS’) market and simply reinvest maturing funds back into the MBS market. This would aid the mortgage market by providing more liquidity and could result in lower mortgage rates in 2026. We’ll stay on this story and report back if anything develops.

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