Rutherford County Market Data

The Relist Rate in Rutherford County Is Telling Sellers Something Important

By John Turner Turner Victory Team May 25, 2026
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The relist rate in Rutherford County has climbed to 31% in the $600,000 to $699,999 range, 23% in the $500,000 to $599,999 range, and 27% to 28% in the $700,000 to $799,999 range. These are the same price bands sitting at five or more months of supply. Sellers who have relisted once are trying to find the right combination of price, presentation, and positioning. Most will need to make meaningful changes before relisting to see different results.

31% Relist Rate — $600K Range
23% Relist Rate — $500K Range
5+ Months Supply at These Price Points
3.63 Overall Months Supply RC

The relist rate in Rutherford County is one of the most direct signals the Turner Victory Team tracks through Tru Insights. It measures the percentage of active listings in each price range that have been pulled off the market and relisted at least once. Sellers relist for different reasons — a price adjustment, a refresh of the photos, a change of agents, or simply pulling it off to regroup. Whatever the reason, a rising relist rate in a price band tells you sellers in that range are not finding buyers at their original terms.

This week the relist rate in Rutherford County reached 31% in the $600,000 to $699,999 range. Nearly one in three homes listed in that price band has already been through at least one relist. That is not a random fluctuation. It is a pattern, and it is concentrated in the same price ranges where month supply has climbed above five months. Understanding what is driving it and what sellers should do before relisting is what this post covers.

The Relist Rate in Rutherford County by Price Point

According to Turner Victory Team Tru Insights data, here is where the relist rate in Rutherford County stands this week across the price ranges showing the most pressure:

Price RangeRelist RateMonth SupplyMarket Condition
$500,000 to $599,99923%Approx. 5 monthsBuyer-leaning
$600,000 to $699,99931%Approx. 5 monthsBuyer-leaning
$700,000 to $799,99927% to 28%Over 6 monthsBuyer’s market
Overall Rutherford CountyBelow average3.63 monthsBalanced

The contrast between the overall market and these specific price bands is important. At 3.63 months of supply overall, Rutherford County is essentially balanced. But averages can mask what is happening at specific price points. The $500,000 to $700,000 range is operating in a different market than the one the county-wide headline number suggests. Sellers in those ranges who are pricing based on what homes below $400,000 are doing will consistently miss where buyers actually are.

What the Relist Rate in Rutherford County Actually Measures Tru Insights tracks relist activity by monitoring when a listing is canceled or expired and then relisted within a 60-day window. This is the same methodology used to calculate Tru DOM — Tru Days on Market — which counts cumulative days across all relist cycles rather than resetting the clock each time a home comes back on the market. A 31% relist rate in the $600s means 31 out of every 100 active listings in that range have already been through at least one full cycle. That is the real picture of how that segment is performing.

Why the Relist Rate in Rutherford County Is Elevated at These Price Points

The relist rate in Rutherford County does not climb in a vacuum. It rises when a specific combination of factors pushes supply above what buyer demand can absorb at current pricing. In the $500,000 to $700,000 range right now, three things are working against sellers simultaneously.

More inventory than the market can move

Five months of supply means there are more homes available in these price ranges than the current pace of buyers can absorb. When a buyer has ten options in the $600,000 range and can only buy one, nine sellers are competing for that contract. The homes that win are the ones that represent the clearest value. The ones that lose either sit and eventually relist or expire entirely. Read more about what months of supply means for Rutherford County sellers and how to read it before you list.

New construction competing at the same price point

New construction makes up 36% of all active listings in Rutherford County this week. In the $500,000 to $700,000 range, builders are actively offering incentives including rate buydowns and closing cost credits that resale homes cannot match directly. According to the National Association of Home Builders, builder incentives have remained elevated through 2026 as new construction inventory has grown nationally. A buyer choosing between a resale home and a new build at a similar price will often choose the new build if the resale does not offer a clear advantage in condition, location, or price. Read more about new construction versus resale in Murfreesboro before pricing your home in a range where builders are active.

Pricing set against stale comps

Many sellers in the $500,000 to $700,000 range priced based on what homes sold for six to twelve months ago, when conditions were tighter. According to the Freddie Mac Housing and Mortgage Market Outlook, price sensitivity among buyers has increased in 2026 as affordability constraints persist, making accurate pricing at the outset more critical than ever. The market has shifted. Buyers in these price ranges have seen enough active inventory to know what fair value looks like. A home priced 3% to 5% above where the current market will support it will sit, accumulate days on market, and eventually either relist or expire. Read the full guide on how to know if your home is priced right before making any pricing decision.

What Relisting Without Changing Anything Actually Does

This is the part sellers need to hear before they relist. Pulling a home off the market and putting it back on without making meaningful changes does not reset buyer perception. It resets the days on market counter in the MLS — but buyers who have been tracking that price range already saw the home the first time. They know it is back. And they wonder why.

Turner Victory Team Tru Insights data tracks Tru DOM across relist cycles, so we can see the full picture of how long a home has actually been available regardless of how many times the MLS clock has been reset. Buyers working with experienced agents are seeing the same thing. A relist without a genuine change in price, presentation, or promotion rarely produces a different outcome.

The Cost of Sitting Too Long Turner Victory Team Tru Insights data on closed sales in Rutherford County shows a clear relationship between time on market and final sale price. Homes that sell in the first seven days average 99.6% of original list price. Homes that sell between 8 and 89 days average 96.5%. Homes that close past 90 days average around 93% of original list price. On a $600,000 home, the difference between selling in week one and selling past 90 days is approximately $39,600. That gap grows every week a home sits without a contract.

What to Do Before You Relist in Rutherford County

If your home is in the $500,000 to $700,000 range and you are considering relisting, the relist rate in Rutherford County tells you that you are not alone — and that relisting without a strategy change will likely produce the same result. Here is what to evaluate before you go back on the market.

Audit your pricing against actual closed comps

Not active listings. Not pending sales. Closed comps from the past 60 to 90 days in your specific price range and ZIP code. What have buyers actually paid for homes comparable to yours? That number is your ceiling, not your floor. If your price is above it, buyers already know. Reach out to the Turner Victory Team for a full Tru Insights comp analysis before you set a new price. Learn more about selling your home in Murfreesboro with data-driven pricing from the start.

Evaluate your presentation honestly

Pull up your listing photos and compare them to the three best-presented homes currently active in your price range. Are yours competitive? In a market where buyers have five months of inventory to choose from, presentation is a differentiator. A home that shows better than its competition at the same price point earns more showings. More showings lead to offers. If your photos are older than six months or were taken before you made improvements, new photography is worth the investment before relisting.

Reconsider your promotion strategy

How is your home being marketed beyond the MLS? Are buyers who are actively searching in your price range being reached directly? The Turner Victory Team uses targeted outreach to buyers already tracking the $500,000 to $700,000 range in Rutherford County. In a market where the relist rate is this elevated, passive MLS exposure is not enough. Active promotion before and on day one is what separates a week-one offer from a month-three relist.

Understand your positioning

Positioning means knowing exactly where your home ranks in the buyer’s mental comparison against everything else available at your price. If five homes will sell this month in your price bracket and fifteen are competing for those five buyers, you need to be in the top five on every dimension a buyer evaluates. That is a competitive analysis, not a guess. The Turner Victory Team builds this into every pre-listing conversation. Read more about how to avoid a stale listing in Murfreesboro for practical steps you can take before you relist.

If You Are Selling in These Price Ranges

The relist rate in Rutherford County at these price points is telling you the market is competitive. Before you relist, get a Tru Insights analysis of where your home actually stands. Reach out to the Turner Victory Team before you make any changes.

If You Are Buying in These Price Ranges

A high relist rate means motivated sellers. Homes that have been through one or more relist cycles in the $500,000 to $700,000 range have sellers who have already demonstrated they want out. That is negotiating leverage worth understanding before you make an offer. Visit our home buying guide for more.

How to Track the Relist Rate in Rutherford County Week Over Week

The Turner Victory Team publishes the full Rutherford County market report every Sunday including relist rates by price range, month supply, showing activity, and pending home sales. For the full four-year trend charts visit turnervictory.com/market-data/rutherford-county/. The full weekly archive is also available. This week’s full report is at showing activity in Murfreesboro dropped this week.

For sellers wondering whether their specific home is affected by the elevated relist rate in Rutherford County, the answer depends on your price point, your ZIP code, and your competition. The Turner Victory Team can pull a live Tru Insights analysis for your specific situation. Read more about how long homes take to sell in Murfreesboro and the overpricing penalty in Murfreesboro before making your next move.

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Questions About the Relist Rate in Rutherford County

As of the week ending May 24, 2026, the relist rate in Rutherford County is 31% in the $600,000 to $699,999 range, 23% in the $500,000 to $599,999 range, and 27% to 28% in the $700,000 to $799,999 range. These figures come from Turner Victory Team Tru Insights data, which tracks listing activity across relist cycles using the same methodology as Tru DOM. The overall market relist rate is below average — the elevated figures are concentrated in these specific price bands.
A high relist rate in Rutherford County signals that sellers in those price ranges are not finding buyers at their original terms. It means supply is outpacing demand at current pricing, and that relisting without making meaningful changes to price, presentation, or promotion is unlikely to produce a different outcome. Sellers in the $500,000 to $700,000 range need to treat a relist as a new launch with a genuine strategy change, not simply a reset of the days on market counter.
Three factors are driving the elevated relist rate in Rutherford County at these price points. First, month supply at five or more months means more homes are available than buyers can absorb at current pricing. Second, new construction makes up 36% of all active listings and builders are offering rate buydowns and closing cost incentives that pull buyers away from resale inventory. Third, many sellers priced based on comps from six to twelve months ago when conditions were tighter, leaving their homes above where the current market will support.
Relisting resets the MLS days on market counter, but it does not reset buyer awareness. Buyers who have been tracking the $500,000 to $700,000 range already saw the home the first time and know it is back. The Turner Victory Team tracks Tru DOM, which counts cumulative days on market across all relist cycles within a 60-day window. Experienced buyers working with knowledgeable agents will see the full history regardless of how many times the MLS clock has been reset.
Turner Victory Team Tru Insights data shows homes that sell in the first seven days average 99.6% of original list price. Homes selling between 8 and 89 days average 96.5%. Homes that close past 90 days average around 93% of original list price. On a $600,000 home that difference between week one and 90-plus days is approximately $39,600. Beyond the price gap, every additional month on the market also means continued carrying costs including mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, and maintenance.
Before relisting in a market with an elevated relist rate in Rutherford County, evaluate four things. First, audit your pricing against actual closed comps from the past 60 to 90 days, not active listings. Second, compare your listing photos honestly against the best-presented homes in your price range right now. Third, assess whether your promotion strategy is reaching buyers who are actively searching your price range, not just passively waiting for them to find the MLS listing. Fourth, understand where your home ranks competitively against everything else a buyer in your price range can choose. Reach out to the Turner Victory Team for a full Tru Insights pre-relist review.
Not overall. The elevated relist rate in Rutherford County is concentrated in the $500,000 to $700,000 range, which is running at five or more months of supply. Below $500,000, the market is under 3.63 months of supply and conditions favor sellers. Pending home sales across all price ranges have outperformed 2025 for six straight weeks. The overall market is balanced. The relist rate signals stress in specific price bands, not a market-wide decline.
For buyers, the elevated relist rate in Rutherford County in the $500,000 to $700,000 range represents real negotiating leverage. Homes that have been relisted once or more have sellers who have already demonstrated they want out and have not found a buyer at their original terms. Combined with five or more months of supply in those price ranges, buyers have more time, more options, and more room to negotiate than they would in a tighter market. Visit our home buying guide to learn how the Turner Victory Team can help you use this data to your advantage.
Tru DOM is the Turner Victory Team’s proprietary Days on Market metric. Unlike MLS DOM, which resets to zero every time a home relists, Tru DOM tracks cumulative days on market across all relist cycles within a 60-day window. It gives buyers and sellers the true picture of how long a home has actually been available. The relist rate in Rutherford County and Tru DOM are related metrics — a high relist rate in a price band typically means a significant portion of the active inventory in that range has a Tru DOM that is considerably higher than what the MLS DOM figure shows.
The Turner Victory Team publishes the relist rate in Rutherford County by price band every Sunday as part of the weekly market report. The full report with four-year trend charts is at turnervictory.com/market-data/rutherford-county/. The complete weekly archive is available at the Murfreesboro real estate market update page. Get on the weekly mailing list at turnervictory.com to have the report delivered to your inbox every Sunday.
The Turner Victory Team uses the relist rate in Rutherford County as part of every pre-listing analysis. By knowing which price ranges have elevated relist activity and what is driving it, we can help sellers position their home competitively before it goes live rather than after the first attempt fails. The Turner Victory Team is the number one team at Onward Real Estate in Murfreesboro by both sales volume and transaction count. Learn more about why buyers and sellers choose the Turner Victory Team.
No. Pricing below market is not the goal. The goal is pricing at market — which means matching your price to what buyers have actually paid for comparable homes in your price range and ZIP code over the past 60 to 90 days. In a range with a 31% relist rate in Rutherford County, many sellers originally priced above market. Getting to market value is not the same as giving the home away. It is finding the price that generates showings in week one and offers before day 30. Read more about how to know if your home is priced right for a full breakdown of how to find that number.

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Data Sources
Relist rate data sourced from Turner Victory Team Tru Insights platform, which tracks listing activity across relist cycles within 60-day windows using live Realtracs MLS data. Month supply figures sourced from Realtracs MLS. Report covers the week ending May 24, 2026. Data updated weekly every Sunday.
John Turner Team Leader Turner Victory Team Murfreesboro TN

John Turner

Team Leader, Turner Victory Team at Onward Real Estate | Since 2000

John Turner has led the Turner Victory Team in Murfreesboro, Tennessee since 2000, helping more than 4,432+ buyers and sellers make confident decisions across Rutherford and Williamson Counties over 26+ years. He publishes this market report every week using live MLS data and Tru Insights, the team’s proprietary analytics system. Call or text 615-586-0900 or visit turnervictory.com. Learn more about why buyers and sellers choose the Turner Victory Team and why hiring a real estate team in Murfreesboro gives you a measurable advantage.