Why we wait until the 14th
Closed sales keep arriving in FMLS for days after a month ends.
By Jeff Crowe
Published · Updated
CALHOUN, Ga. Closed sales keep arriving in FMLS for days after a month ends. Agents report closings late, and corrections land after that. A count pulled on the 2nd of the month misses part of the month before it.
So the official monthly figures on our market reports come from one run on the 14th of the following month. Anything earlier is labeled in progress and is not cited in these articles. If a later run restates a month, the report shows the restated figure and the article gets a dated correction.
This month's example
The October 2026 figures in these articles come from the run on Nov. 14, 2026. That run counted 4,911 closed sales across the FMLS footprint for October.
“Closings keep landing in FMLS for days after a month ends, so we wait for the run on the 14th. October came in at 4,911 closed sales, and that's the count every story here uses.”
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Jeff Crowe, publisher and market reporter
Jeff Crowe writes about Georgia home sales from the official monthly FMLS run. Jeff is a licensed real estate agent with CENTURY 21 The Avenues, a full-service local brokerage in Calhoun, Ga.