According to ATTOM’s recently released Q3 2025 U.S. Home Sales Report, homeowners earned a 49.9 percent profit on typical single-family home and condo sales, up slightly from a 49.3 percent margin in the previous quarter but still below the 55.4 percent profit recorded in the third quarter of 2024.
ATTOM’s latest home sales analysis reported that before 2020, home sellers typically saw profit margins of about 30 percent. As the Covid-19 pandemic drove many buyers to leave cities in search of more space, profits surged, reaching over 60 percent by mid-2022. Since that peak, margins have gradually declined but have remained just under 50 percent for the past three quarters.
The report noted that meanwhile, home prices continued to climb, with the national median sales price reaching $370,000 in the third quarter of 2025, up 1.2 percent from the previous quarter and 3.4 percent year over year.
Also, according to the report, the typical home sale generated a $123,100 profit. This represents a 1.9 percent increase from the previous quarter but still 3.5 percent below the level seen in the third quarter of 2024, a reminder that the market remains just under its recent peak.
ATTOM’s Q2 2025 home sales analysis reported that profit margins declined quarter over quarter in 92 of the 157 large metropolitan areas analyzed by ATTOM (58.6 percent) and dropped year over year in 132 of those markets (84.1 percent). The profit margin represents the percentage difference between the median purchase and resale prices of homes within a given area. Metro areas were included in the analysis if they recorded at least 1,000 home sales during the third quarter of 2025 and had sufficient data to analyze.
In this post, we dive in the data behind ATTOM’s Q3 2025 home sales report to uncover the top 10 U.S. metros with the highest annual increases in home seller profit margins in Q3 2025. Among those metros with a minimum of 1,000 home sales and sufficient data to analyze in Q3, the top 10 include: St. George, UT (up from 26.3 percent in Q3 2024 to 37.2 percent in Q3 2025); Gulfport, MS (up from 26.2 percent to 35.7 percent); Augusta, GA (up from 37.8 percent to 43.7 percent); Lexington, KY (up from 42.9 percent to 48.6 percent); Dayton, OH (up from 55.1 percent to 60.7 percent); Corpus Christi, TX (up from 24.4 percent to 29.6 percent); Lubbock, TX (up from 18.1 percent to 23 percent); Greensboro, NC (up from 48.8 percent to 52.9 percent); Chicago, IL (up from 46.4 percent to 50.4 percent); Urban Honolulu, HI (up from 38.2 percent to 41.9 percent).
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