In a sign of home sellers' frustration over how long it's taking to find a buyer, more owners are opting to pull their property off the market rather than lower the asking price.

That's according to a recent report from Realtor.com finding that so-called delistings, or homes taken off the market without having been sold, were up 38% in June since the start of 2025 and 48% from a year ago.

"Fewer and fewer sellers are deciding to enter the market, and increasingly more are deciding to jump out," Jake Krimmel, senior economist at Realtor.com told CBS MoneyWatch.

Signs of deadlock

One indicator that more sellers are exiting the housing market is the ratio between the number of delistings and listings. For every 100 new homes listed nationally in June, 21 homes were taken off the ma

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