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Housing inventory defied all predictions in 2023

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Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. Looking back on 2023, the inventory story was a big surprise even as mortgage rates headed toward 8%, as the data below will show. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory finally rises

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Since 2020, the seasonal bottom for housing inventory has arrived several months later than normal, making it more complicated to track housing inventory data. Still, we have some promising signs that we might have finally hit the inventory bottom for 2023.

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New listings data is growing and prices still aren’t crashing

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Housing inventory is growing, but national home prices aren’t dropping dramatically, as the recent S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller index clearly showed. The rules of supply and demand economics always end up winning and weekly new listing data is key. Last week, we saw a positive inventory growth of 11,638 !

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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

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On Friday NAR reported that total housing inventory levels broke under 1 million in December, dropping to 970,00 units for a population of 330 million people. million in January down to about 4 million in December, We now have total inventory levels near all-time lows again. During that period, we saw new listing data decline.

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Housing inventory still near record lows

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months’ worth of housing inventory in the U.S. If we are trending below 4 million — a possibility with new listing data trending at all-time lows — then we have much weaker demand than people think. For some historical context, back in 2011, this data line was 101 days. Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month

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Mortgage rates helped by the Fed’s moderate stance

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Weekly housing inventory data The best housing story for 2024 so far is that inventory is growing yearly. The growth isn’t just in active inventory but also new listings. Right now we are a tad below the levels we saw in 2022 before mortgage rates spiked over 6%. When rates fall, they go lower than an average year.

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Agents in Illinois grapple with the state’s housing inventory shortage

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Real estate professionals throughout the state attribute the resilience of the state’s housing market to its perpetually low inventory problem. Inventory is almost nonexistent,” said Melissa Kingsbury , a Redfin agent who works in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. “If As of Feb. Across the state, as of Feb. 1 through Dec.

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