Rogers Has the Slowest Shelf in the Territory. It's Also Selling More Homes Than Ever.

In the twelve weeks ending August 23, 2026, Rogers carried the highest months of supply among Cedar, Isanti, Anoka, Andover, Elk River and Rogers, even as its own homes sold climbed well past last year's pace.

Rank every market in this territory by how long it would take to sell through everything currently on the shelf at today's pace, and one answer jumps out right away: Rogers is the slowest.

Months of supply is the plainest way to ask that question. It says how many months it would take to clear every home currently listed if sales kept moving at the same rate they're moving now. In Rogers, that number sits at 3 months, the highest of any market in the territory.

Normally a number like that means a market that's cooling. Except Rogers didn't cool down. Homes sold there actually rose, to 152 this period from 122 a year earlier. The shelf in Rogers isn't emptying slowly because fewer buyers are showing up. It's emptying slowly despite more of them showing up than last year. That's a stranger, more interesting story than a flat ranking would tell on its own.

Anoka sits at 1.70 months of supply.

Andover ties it. Andover also sits at 1.70 months of supply, even though the two markets look nothing alike on price. Together, they clear their shelves faster than anywhere else in this report.

Elk River, Isanti and Cedar fill in the middle, ranging from about two months of supply up to roughly two and a half, in that order. None of them is fast. None of them is as slow as Rogers.

What a number like that actually means for someone on the ground is worth spelling out. A slow shelf isn't a speed limit, it's a runway: more inventory sitting relative to the pace of sales typically shows up as more homes to compare, less pressure to decide on the first weekend, and more room to negotiate. A fast shelf works the opposite way. Whatever's listed moves through quickly enough that hesitating for a week can mean missing a specific house entirely.

That split cuts differently depending on which side of the transaction you're on. A buyer with time to be patient does better in the market carrying the longest runway. A buyer who can move quickly does better where the shelf empties fastest. A seller weighing when to list should ask which kind of company their listing will keep once it's on the market, not just what the last comparable sold for.

For Rogers specifically, the read is more nuanced than "slow." It sold more homes than it did a year ago, so a longer runway there doesn't mean sellers are struggling to find buyers. It means each listing has more competing inventory to stand out against while it waits.

What's worth watching from here is whether Rogers keeps absorbing at this pace as new listings continue arriving, or whether incoming supply outpaces it and the runway stretches further still. Either way, the next real signal on Rogers won't come from one more sales count. It'll come from whether the shelf itself starts moving through faster or slower than it is right now.

The figures here come from MLS sold data across the territory. Zillow independently verified the underlying inputs before this went to print.