Weekly snapshots
15 snapshots, newest first.
- Week 15, 2026
The most striking thing about week 15 isn't the inventory build or the price slide in isolation. It's both happening at once, with force. Active listings jumped 6.56% week on week to 27.25 million sto…
- Week 14, 2026
Nearly 3.9 million stones came off the market in week 14, the highest single-week off-market count across the seven weeks I've been tracking this cycle. At the same time, new listings fell to a seven-…
- Week 13, 2026
The number that stops me cold this week is the price-per-carat figure. $987.50, the first time the market-wide median has broken below $1,000 in this seven-week window, and down 8% from last week's $…
- Week 12, 2026
Off-market listings exploded this week. 1,325,050 stones left active inventory across the retailers I track, up from just 56,591 the prior week. That's not a rounding error. It's a 22x surge in a sing…
- Week 11, 2026
Off-market activity collapsed this week. Only 56,591 listings left the market across all the retailers I track, down 83% from last week's 338,873 and the lowest single-week exit figure in the seven-we…
- Week 10, 2026
Median price per carat hit $1,136 this week, a seven-week low and down nearly 24% from the $1,493 recorded back in W04. That's not a blip. It's a sustained compression that's been running since early …
- Week 9, 2026
The price compression this week is the story. Median price per carat hit $1,174.51, a seven-week low and down 12.3% from last week's $1,339.77. Median transaction price fell to $1,150, also the lowest…
- Week 8, 2026
The number that stopped me this week was 6.23 million new listings hitting the market in a single seven-day window. That's an 185% jump on last week's already-elevated count, and it pushed active inve…
- Week 7, 2026
2.19 million new listings in a single week. That's not a typo. Week 7 saw new listings arrive at nearly four times the pace of week 6, the biggest single-week intake across the seven periods I've trac…
- Week 6, 2026
The number that stopped me cold this week was 813,364 off-market listings. That's not a rounding error. Week 5 saw 145,053 stones leave the market; week 6 saw that figure jump by more than 460%. Combi…
- Week 5, 2026
The number that catches my eye first is off-market activity: only 145,053 listings came off the market in week 5, down 48% from the 279,060 we saw the week prior and the lowest single-week figure acro…
- Week 4, 2026
The quietest exit rate in four weeks is the most telling number from week 4 of 2026. Only 279,060 stones came off the market, down 35% from the prior week's 432,612 and the lowest off-market count acr…
- Week 3, 2026
New listings dropped 25% week on week, from 752,000 to 561,760, the lowest weekly intake across the three weeks I've been tracking 2026. That alone would be notable. But pair it with off-market depart…
- Week 2, 2026
The round brilliant's median new-listing price dropped to $900 this week, down 41% from $1,525 in week 1. That's a striking move on the market's highest-volume shape, one that accounted for 37.6% of a…
- Week 1, 2026
The first week of 2026 opens with a market that is, structurally, much larger than casual observers might expect. Over 9.18 million active listings carrying a combined value of roughly $29 billion is …
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.