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Movers’ Report · Alaska week of September 21, 2026

Alaska's listing prices slip while home values quietly creep up

Gas eased a couple cents and unemployment held flat at 4.3%, so nothing here is dramatic, but the housing numbers are pulling in opposite directions.

By The Honest Local · every number links to its public source · 4 readings across 1 places
−0.9%median listing price in Alaska, $449,000 to $445,000FRED · Aug 2026
Alaska
Alaska, where this week’s biggest move landed.
The movers largest changes this period, with source and date

If you're watching the for-sale market in Alaska, here's the odd part. The median listing price actually dropped to $445,000, per FRED's realtor.com series, down from $449,000. But Zillow's home value index went the other way, up to $398,663 from $397,444. Sellers are asking for a little less while the underlying value of what's already out there ticks up. That's not a contradiction, it just means fewer big-ticket listings are hitting the market right now.

Gas barely moved. AAA has it at $5.06 a gallon statewide, down from $5.07. That's not a number anyone plans a budget around, but it's still one of the higher pump prices in the country, so don't read 'down' as 'cheap.'

Unemployment sat still at 4.3%, per BLS. No improvement, no slide. If you're weighing a move north for work, that flat line means the job market isn't tightening or loosening, it's just holding its breath.

  • Alaska's median listing price fell 0.9% to $445,000 in August 2026, per FRED / realtor.com (MEDLISPRIAK).
  • Alaska's typical home value rose 0.3% to $398,663 in August 2026, per Zillow's Home Value Index.
  • Alaska's regular gas price dipped 0.2% to $5.06 a gallon as of September 18, 2026, per AAA's state average.
  • Alaska's unemployment rate held at 4.3% in August 2026, unchanged, per BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics.
How this report is built. Every figure comes from a public series read this week: Zillow’s rent and home value indexes, FRED’s listing price series from realtor.com, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ local unemployment rates, and AAA’s state gas averages. The prose is drafted from those readings and checked number by number against them before it publishes. Unemployment moves are shown in percentage points. Nothing here is a forecast.
Sources and method
  1. AAA, AK state average · Regular gas
  2. FRED / realtor.com, series MEDLISPRIAK · Listing price
  3. Zillow Home Value Index (state) · Home value
  4. BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · Unemployment

The Honest Local publishes a Movers’ Report for each state it covers, weekly, from public data. Readings that go stale are dropped, not carried. Every value on this page carries its source in the page’s structured data.