Welcome to the Alabama Residential Real Estate Index™ (AL RREI™). The AL RREI™ measures residential real estate expectations for the upcoming quarter gathered from a broad group of professionals working in residential real estate and related fields. Six key indicators create a composite index of overall market conditions and an outlook for the state’s metropolitan areas. Through the survey, panelists can take the pulse of the state’s residential real estate market as well as compare their own forecasts to those of their peers.
Click the “Register for the Survey” button below to register as a Commercial Real Estate Index (CREI) panelist. Once registered, you will receive an email once a quarter to participate. If you are a returning participant, you do not need to re-register.
For any questions regarding the survey, please contact Stuart Norton at tsnorton@ua.edu or (205) 348-5416.
The Alabama Residential Real Estate Index (AL RREI™) is a quarterly survey of residential brokers, sales agents, affiliates (loan officers, title agents, bankers, appraisers, etc.), and other industry professionals that measures market expectations for the upcoming quarter. An index value of 50 indicates a neutral outlook. Scores below 50 indicate a contractionary outlook while scores above 50 indicate an expansionary outlook.
In the Alabama Center for Real Estate’s survey, respondents in the Q2 2025 RREI™ registered an index score of 60.1. This means real estate professionals across the state have strong confidence that the statewide real estate market will improve during the second quarter. The index recorded a score above 50 for the sixth consecutive quarter, however the index declined 3.2 points from the Q1 2025 RREI™. All six components of the AL RREI™ registered scores above 50, and five of the six increased from the Q1 survey. Interest rates were the only component to have a lower index than Q1, but survey participants still expect interest rates to decline during Q2.
Residential real estate professionals are very strongly confident that listings will increase, strongly confident that home sales will increase, mildly confident that home prices will increase, and moderately confident that interest rates will decrease during Q2 2025 when compared to the prior quarter.
