Sedona closed 41 home sales in July, eight fewer than the same month a year ago. Those homes moved faster than any July group in the twenty-one year record.
The number most people will repeat is that active inventory is up 18.6% over last July. The number that actually explains this market is 81, the average days on market for a home that closed in Sedona, Arizona in July 2026.
Both are true at the same time. The space between them is where every pricing decision in this market now lives.
The Sedona Housing Market at a Glance: July 2026
The latest available data shows Sedona recorded 41 closed sales in July 2026 at a median sold price of $985,000, with 236 active listings and an average of 81 days on market.
Active Listings
Sedona carried 236 active listings in July, up 37 from 199 a year ago and down 25 from 261 in June. Buyers have meaningfully more to look at than they did last summer.
New Listings
Only 45 new listings came to market in July, down 22.4% from June and 23.7% from July 2025. The larger active count is not being fed by new arrivals, it is being fed by homes that stayed.
Sold Listings
Sedona closed 41 sales in July, down from 43 in June and 49 in July 2025. Sold volume came in at $45,257,050, compared with $59,793,958 a year ago.
Median Sold Price
The median sold price was $985,000, up $135,000 from June and down $40,000 from $1,025,000 in July 2025. That 15.9% monthly jump is a rebound off June’s low for the year, not a new high.
Sedona’s monthly medians in 2026 have run $1,090,000, $977,500, $1,137,800, $910,000, $1,262,000, $850,000, and now $985,000.
Average Sold Price
The average sold price was $1,103,830, up 4.6% from June and down 9.5% from $1,220,285 last July. The average now sits 12.1% above the median, narrowed from 19.1% a year ago.
The top of the market is doing less of the lifting than it did in 2025.
Days on Market
Homes that closed in July averaged 81 days on market, down from 91 in June and 119 in July 2025. The median was 52 days, down from 64 in June and 78 a year ago.
Months of Inventory
Months of inventory read 5.76 in July, compared with 6.07 in June and 4.06 in July 2025. That is a 41.9% year over year increase in how long the current supply would take to absorb, and it is an early reading that tends to firm upward as a month settles.
Sale to List Ratio
Sedona sellers received 96.5% of their most recent asking price in July, down from 97.9% in June and 97.7% last July. Measured against the original asking price, they received 93.6%, compared with 94.3% in June and 93.9% a year ago.
The Fastest Slow Market in 21 Years of July Data
Homes that closed in Sedona in July 2026 averaged 81 days on market, the fastest July in the twenty-one year record, while active listings ran 18.6% above last July.
The two previous July records were 86 days in 2022 and 88 days in 2021. The 52 day median is the second fastest July on record, behind only the 43 days of July 2021.
A market that is genuinely slowing does not set a speed record. What Sedona is doing is sorting.
Correctly priced homes clear quickly. The ones that miss accumulate week after week until they become the inventory number everyone quotes.
The 236 active listings and the 81 day average are describing two different groups of houses.
One caution on that speed number. It belongs to homes that closed in July, which came to market roughly February through April, so it grades spring pricing rather than anything listed last month.
The Ask Came Down to Meet the Market
Sellers who listed in Sedona in July 2026 asked a median $950,000, which is $35,000 below the $985,000 median that homes actually sold for. That is the first month this year the new listing ask has landed under the sold median.
The gap between what sits on the market and what closes narrowed sharply. Active listings carried a median asking price of $1,099,000 against that $985,000 median sale, a gap of $114,000, or 11.6% above what buyers paid.
In June the same gap was $345,000, or 40.6%. In July 2025 it was $165,000, or 16.1%.
Price reductions say the same thing. The average price change on an active Sedona listing was a reduction of $91,618, or 5.84%, compared with $182,568, or 8.74%, in July 2025.
Sellers are cutting roughly half as much because more of them are starting closer to reality. Day one pricing has quietly become the entire negotiation.
July’s $950,000 new listing median is an input, and its effect lands in September and October closings, not in the July numbers above it.
What This Means for Buyers in Sedona
Buyers in Sedona, Arizona have 37 more homes to choose from than last July and a median sale price 3.9% lower, but the discount now lives in the asking price rather than in the negotiation.
For buyers asking whether now is the right time to purchase in Sedona, here is what the data actually says. Homes sold at 93.6% of their original asking price in July 2026 against 93.9% in July 2025, so the room to negotiate is almost exactly where it was a year ago.
The value moved upstream, into the starting number, instead of waiting on the table for a buyer to argue for it.
A 52 day median means half of July’s closings were under contract inside roughly two months of listing. Waiting for the good ones to sit is a plan built on the wrong half of the market.
Sedona is also six distinct areas, from West Sedona and Uptown Sedona to the Chapel Area, the Red Rock Loop, Oak Creek Canyon, and the Village of Oak Creek. A citywide median tells you what the market did, not what your street did, so it helps to search current Sedona listings by area.
What This Means for Sellers in Sedona
Sedona sellers who priced correctly on day one saw a median 52 days on market in July 2026, while homes that missed on price accumulated into the 236 active listings buyers now scroll past.
Two ratios tell the whole story. Homes sold at 96.5% of their most recent asking price and 93.6% of their original asking price, and the distance between those two numbers is what a price correction costs.
The most recent list price is what a seller settled on after the market corrected them. The original list price is what they believed on day one.
Angelo Davis, REALTOR® at RE/MAX Sedona, reads this data by area and by price band before a home ever reaches the MLS. In a sorting market, the first ten days on market carry more weight than the ninety that follow.
The First Seven Months of 2026 vs 2025
Through July, Sedona recorded 308 closed sales in 2026 against 309 in the same stretch of 2025, a difference of a single sale. Sales volume rose 2.4% to $378,844,477.
New listings are the outlier. 474 homes came to market between January and July 2026, up 17.0% from 405 a year ago, while closings stayed flat.
The average sale price for the year is $1,230,015, up 2.7% from $1,197,808. Average days on market fell to 85 from 114, and the average sale to list ratio eased to 96.3% from 97.3%.
The same number of sales, more dollars, twenty-nine fewer days, and one point less pricing power. For the full prior year picture, compare it with Sedona’s 2025 real estate market report.
How July 2026 Compares to Two Decades of Julys
At $985,000, the July 2026 median sold price in Sedona, Arizona is 79.1% above July 2006, 149.4% above July 2015, and 80.9% above July 2020.
Compound annual growth in the July median runs 3.0% over twenty years, 8.7% over eleven years, and 10.4% over six years.
July 2026’s 5.76 months of inventory sits under July 2024’s 7.69, well under July 2016’s 11.29, and nowhere near July 2008’s 35.85.
Speed has changed the most. July closings averaged 258 days on market in 2009 and 218 days in 2010, against 81 today.
Anyone calling this a slow market is comparing it to 2021, when 75 homes sold in July at a 2.67 month supply and an $814,000 median.
Sedona Market Outlook: The Next 60 to 90 Days
The number to watch this fall is whether the $950,000 new listing median holds, because those are the homes that will close in September and October.
New listings slowed to 45 in July from 58 in June and 59 last July. Fewer arrivals combined with faster absorption is what pulled the active count down 25 from June.
For anyone asking what the Sedona real estate market is like right now, the honest answer is that it depends almost entirely on how a home is priced. The same month produced the fastest July on record and a year over year inventory increase of 18.6%.
Sedona’s 2026 medians have swung from $850,000 to $1,262,000 across seven months, so any single month is a reading rather than a direction.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Sedona, Arizona right now?
The median sold price in Sedona, Arizona was $985,000 in July 2026, according to the latest available data. That is 15.9% above June’s $850,000 and 3.9% below the $1,025,000 median of July 2025.
Is the Sedona real estate market slowing down in 2026?
Sedona’s market is sorting rather than slowing. Homes that closed in July 2026 averaged 81 days on market, the fastest July in the twenty-one year record, even though active listings ran 18.6% higher than last July.
How many homes are for sale in Sedona right now?
Sedona had 236 active listings in the July 2026 reading, up 37 from 199 in July 2025 and down 25 from 261 in June. New listings slowed to 45 for the month, down 23.7% from last July.
Is now a good time to buy a home in Sedona?
Buyers in July 2026 had more choice and a lower median price than a year earlier, with 37 more active listings and a median sale price down 3.9%. The negotiating room did not widen, though, since homes sold at 93.6% of original list against 93.9% last July.
How long does it take to sell a house in Sedona?
Homes that closed in Sedona, Arizona in July 2026 averaged 81 days on market, with a median of 52 days. Both are the strongest July readings in more than two decades, and both describe homes that were listed roughly February through April.
What are Sedona sellers asking compared to what buyers are paying?
Active listings in Sedona carried a median asking price of $1,099,000 in July 2026 against a median sold price of $985,000, a gap of $114,000. That same gap was $345,000 in June and $165,000 in July 2025.
How much have Sedona home prices risen over the long term?
The July median sold price in Sedona has grown at a compound annual rate of 3.0% over twenty years, 8.7% over eleven years, and 10.4% over six years. July 2026’s $985,000 median sits 80.9% above the $544,500 median of July 2020.
The difference between a home that closes in fifty-two days and one that becomes part of the inventory number is decided in the first week, not the tenth. If a move is on your mind this fall, it is worth knowing where your Sedona home sits in these numbers before you settle on a price.
