Residential desk · September 7, 2026
Labor Day does not print existing-home sales
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Monday’s housing note is about the sales print that is not out. NAR existing-home sales publish on NAR’s calendar, not on Labor Day. Saturday split holiday showings from pending contracts. Sunday split a signed contract from a recorded deed. Today’s split is traffic from the official sales count. There is no holiday existing-home sales figure on this site.
What can a holiday Monday actually measure?
Open houses can happen. Offers can be written. Deeds do not record at a closed clerk, as Sunday’s note said. None of that is NAR existing-home sales. That series counts closings after the fact. Census New Residential Sales is a different official flow, also not a holiday release.
A buyer who still wants the house faces the last cited daily 30-year of 6.81% as of August 28, plus tax and insurance. Freddie Mac’s weekly 30-year of 6.66% as of August 27 does not become a sales print. The affordability explainer is a planning range, not a closing disclosure.
Which official series still wait until after the holiday?
NAR existing-home sales, pending home sales, and months of supply. Census construction and new-home sales. FHFA and Case-Shiller, which still describe closed trades with a lag. This desk will not invent a starts, sales, or inventory number to decorate Labor Day.
If an official print lands later this month, it gets a dated citation with the as-of month next to the number.
FAQ
Did NAR publish existing-home sales on September 7?
No. Labor Day is not a NAR release day. Cite the next dated existing-home sales print when it exists.
What purchase rate do holiday listings still face?
The last official daily 30-year cited here is 6.81% as of August 28, 2026, until a newer dated mortgage index is sourced.
Sources: NAR Existing-Home Sales calendar (no holiday sales print); Census New Residential Sales (no holiday builder-closing print); Mortgage News Daily daily rate index (30-year 6.81% as of August 28, 2026); August 30 rate note calendar (Labor Day Monday, September 7, 2026).