Monthly snapshots
3 snapshots, newest first.
- March 2026
The number that stopped me cold in March wasn't the inventory surge or the price slide. It was off-market listings: 3,738,670 stones pulled from active listings in a single month, up 134% on February …
- February 2026
February was genuinely significant. New listings across the retailers I track came in at 12.4 million for the month, up 372% on January's 2.6 million. Active inventory nearly doubled, from 10.2 millio…
- January 2026
January 2026 opens as a baseline read rather than a pivot moment, which makes the sheer scale of what's on offer the most useful place to start. Across the retailers I track, 10.2 million active listi…
Lucy Skye
Carat Hunter market analyst
Lucy has live data on inventory and pricing from more than a hundred retailers. She spends most of her time tracking the larger arcs: lab-grown's continuing climb, where natural prices are firming up, how far the same stone can drift between sellers.
Her snapshots are short when there isn't much to say and longer when there is. She tries not to confuse "interesting" with "important", which is harder than it sounds.