States · GA · metro

Waycross, Georgia.

Is it a buyer's or a seller's market? Six dials, updated monthly — speed, supply and seller behaviour, not just prices.

Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Waycross listings, and the typical home goes pending in 46 days — the market is roughly in balance.

Zillow's own model expects Waycross home values to change +1.9% over the year to Sep 2027. A forecast, not a promise — it is revised every month, and Zillow publishes it with that caveat.

What it costs per month · Waycross $862/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$482 (+127%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $6,547 +4%
$157,683$164,231 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $33,284 +25%
$130,947$164,231 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Waycross $862 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Waycross$862
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.

Typical home values in Waycross, GA rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

When this market ran hot

Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.

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falling flat warming hot overheating runaway

Share of listings with a price cut

The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.

10% 15% 20% 25% 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Waycross 24.54% United States 26.90%
10% 15% 20% 25% 2018 2022 2026
  • Waycross24.54%
  • United States26.90%

Days to pending

How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.

25 50 75 100 2026 Waycross 46 United States 27
25 50 75 100 2026
  • Waycross46
  • United States27

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

150 200 250 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Waycross 270
150 200 250 2018 2022 2026
  • Waycross270

New listings per month

Sellers arriving at the market.

25 50 75 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Waycross 56
25 50 75 2018 2022 2026
  • Waycross56

Median sale price

What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.

$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Waycross $173,922 United States $371,407
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Waycross$173,922
  • United States$371,407

Sale-to-list ratio

Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.

94.5% 95.0% 95.5% 96.0% 96.5% 2026 Waycross 94.50%
94.5% 95.0% 95.5% 96.0% 96.5% 2026
  • Waycross94.50%