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Orlando Home Prices: Metro List Price Falls to $405,000, With a Price Cut on Nearly One Listing in Four

November 15, 2026 George Deming

The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro median list price fell 3.6% in a year to $405,000, nearly one listing in four took a price cut, and new listings barely moved — Realtor.com's October 2026 housing report, read for what it means by area.

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Real Estate & Growth

The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro’s median asking price dropped 3.6% in a year, nearly a quarter of listings took a price cut, and new sellers largely stayed home — the Realtor.com October 2026 housing report, released November 4, describes a metro market that is cooling on price while barely moving on supply.

Asking prices in metro Orlando fell again in October. The median list price across the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metropolitan area was $405,000 in October 2026, down 3.6% from October 2025, according to the Realtor.com October 2026 housing report, released on November 4, 2026. The price per square foot fell 2.7% over the same year. These are asking prices — what sellers list for — not recorded sale prices, and the distinction matters in a month when almost one listing in four had already been marked down.

What the October numbers say

Realtor.com’s metro table for October 2026 records four movements at once. Active listings in the metro rose 2.8% year over year, so buyers scanning Orlando’s areas and neighbourhoods had modestly more to look at than a year ago. New listings, though, slipped 0.6% — a far smaller drop than the national figure of 7.5%, which Realtor.com called the steepest national decline since September 2023. The share of metro listings with a price reduction reached 23.7%, up 0.6 percentage points from a year earlier. And the median time on market shortened by three days against October 2025, a reminder that well-priced homes here are still moving even as the headline price drifts down.

The rate problem behind the local numbers

The report ties the national stall to borrowing costs: 30-year mortgage rates averaged 7.33% in October, and the stock of homes under contract nationally fell 10.5% year over year. Nationally, the median list price was $415,000, down 2.2% — the twelfth consecutive month of year-over-year decline. Metro Orlando’s 3.6% asking-price drop is steeper than the national figure, while its supply held up better: where sellers across the country pulled back hard, Orlando’s new-listing count was nearly flat.

What it means by area

A metro median hides the spread residents actually shop in. The same $405,000 buys very differently in Lake Nona, where the Citizen’s guide for new residents tracks a Medical City-anchored market, than it does in the metro’s older suburbs — the pattern the Citizen’s Moving to Orlando: The Neighborhoods Locals Actually Pick lays out street by street. For buyers, the operative figures are the 23.7% price-reduction share and the per-square-foot decline: both say negotiation room exists on listings that have sat. For sellers, the nearly flat new-listings line says the competition is the existing stock, not a wave of fresh listings.

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Sources & notes: All figures are from the Realtor.com October 2026 housing report (Realtor.com Research, released November 4, 2026), Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro table and national summary. List prices are asking prices for active listings, not closed sale prices. The metro covers Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake counties.

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