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 Residential Real Estate Index (RREI) 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, lenders, appraisers, and other industry professionals that gauges market expectations for the upcoming quarter. An index value of 50 represents a neutral outlook; values above 50 indicate an outlook of expansion, while those below 50 reflect an outlook of contraction.
The AL RREI™ recorded a score of 53.7 in the Q3 2026 survey, a decrease of 8.5 points from Q2 and signaling continued expansion of Alabama’s residential real estate market but with a lower level of confidence. This marks the eleventh consecutive quarter of an expansionary outlook among survey participants. Survey respondents expressed strong confidence in growing residential listings and moderate confidence in rising home sales, mild confidence in improving Alabama and U.S. market conditions in Q3 2026 compared to Q2 2026. Respondents also expressed slight confidence that interest rates will increase, and were neutral about home sales prices.
