Homes in Citrus Heights are taking longer to find buyers than they did a year ago, according to newly released data from Redfin covering the three months ending in June. The typical home sold in 19 days over that period, up from 14 days in the same stretch of 2025 — a 35.7% increase that means the average listing sat on the market nearly a week longer than it did last spring. In a market where homes were changing hands in as little as 11 days two years ago and just six days at the height of the 2021 frenzy, the slower pace marks a meaningful shift, even though the market remains firmly tilted toward sellers.

A slower clock, but not a cold market

The longer selling times do not reflect a lack of buyers. Sales activity actually picked up: 213 homes sold in the three months ending June, an 8.1% increase from the 197 sold a year earlier. Inventory rose modestly as well, with 406 active listings compared to 399 a year ago, a 1.8% gain.

Those figures translate into just 1.9 months of supply — the number of months it would take to sell every home on the market at the current sales pace. Any reading below roughly four months is generally considered a sellers’ market, so despite homes taking longer to sell, buyers in Citrus Heights still face limited choice. That tightness is reflected in the sale-to-list ratio, which sat at exactly 100%, meaning the typical home sold for its asking price. Roughly 39% of homes sold above list price, down from 43.1% a year earlier — another sign that sellers have given up a bit of their edge.

Prices hold steady

The median sale price in Citrus Heights was $482,987, down 1.4% from $490,000 in the same period last year. On a per-square-foot basis, prices eased 2.0%, from $327 to $321, suggesting the modest decline reflects genuine softening rather than a shift toward smaller homes. Month over month, the median edged up 0.7% from $479,750, a typical spring pattern as the market moves into its busiest season.

Over a longer horizon, prices remain up 9.3% from five years ago, when the median stood at $441,750 in the three months ending June 2021. The current median is also below the $490,000 mark recorded both one and two years ago, meaning prices have essentially moved sideways since 2024 after their earlier run-up.

For the city of roughly 86,000 residents — whose population slipped 0.9% over the past year — affordability remains stretched. At the current median price, a home costs about 5.9 times the median household income of $82,314, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, well above the level generally considered affordable. A buyer putting 20% down at June’s average 30-year fixed rate would face a monthly principal-and-interest payment of about $2,440, or roughly 35.6% of the median household’s monthly income.

Rates offer modest relief

One factor working in buyers’ favor is the shift in borrowing costs. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.49% in June, according to Freddie Mac, down from 6.82% a year earlier. Combined with the slight dip in local prices, that rate move means the monthly payment on a median-priced home is about $121 lower than it was a year ago — $2,440 now versus $2,561 then. Rates ticked up slightly from May’s 6.44% average but remain well below year-ago levels.

Nationally, home prices continued to rise modestly, with the S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index up slightly year over year — a contrast to the flat-to-declining prices seen in Citrus Heights.

What the numbers add up to

Taken together, the June data paint a picture of a market that remains competitive but has cooled at the margins. Buyers are still active — sales are up 8.1% year over year — and the low 1.9-month supply keeps pressure on. But homes are taking meaningfully longer to sell, fewer are fetching above-asking offers, and prices have edged down from a year ago. For sellers, that means the fast, well-above-list sales of recent years are harder to count on; for buyers, it means a little more time to decide, even if choices remain limited.