There were many encouraging signs for the Queens housing market in 2025. Last fall, more and more homes entered contract seeing a boost of 17.5%. They also sold quite a bit faster than the citywide average, listing for about 54 days versus the citywide median of 68. With this spring’s market already showing more demand than the one before, Queens enters the busy season with more momentum than it’s seen in years.
While the springtime is historically meaningful to the housing market, this season in particular has a lot going its way. According to Redfin, mortgage rates are predicted to drop from 6.8% last spring to 6.3%, which should bring a lot of new buyers into the field. At the same time, Zillow saw a 4.6% boost in newly pending listings from last year, meaning more homes are going under contract. More house hunters entering the market plus Queens’ thinner price tag compared to Brooklyn and Manhattan means that the borough is in a good position to absorb that demand.
Little by little, Queens is shedding its reputation as merely the borough buyers turned to after being priced out by others. Sunnyside alone saw a 43% surge in buyer searches last year–the biggest leap in interest across NYC’s most in-demand neighborhoods.
This year, Carmela Homes alone put five Astoria properties in contract after being listed for just over one month. Queens enters this spring season with strong demand, faster sales, and a growing sense that the borough no longer needs to compete on price alone. If the world’s borough makes the most of this season, it could start being city buyers’ first choice.
