With the median home price of existing homes at $ 246,800 in December 2017 (cumulative change of 60 percent since January 2012), and with fewer
inventory of homes for sale at their lowest level since January 1999 (3.2 months» supply), REALTORS ® expect prices to continue to appreciate in the next 12 months.
«Builders are noting an increased sense of urgency among potential buyers as a result of
thinning inventories of homes for sale, continuing affordable mortgage rates and strengthening local economies,» notes National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Chairman Rick Judson, a home builder from Charlotte, N.C. «This is definitely an encouraging sign even amidst rising challenges with regard to the cost and availability of building materials, lots and labor.»
Orange County CA Home Selling Market Update shows active
listing inventory of homes for sale now totals 5,493 (which number is down as compared with last year) and trend expected to continue through the end of the year.
This phenomenon is known as «mortgage rate lock - in» and could lead to diminished demand from home buyers and / or
reduced inventory of homes for sale as would - be buyers instead choose to stay put in their current homes.
By knowing which of these personas your female buyers most closely align with, you may be able to narrow that
huge inventory of homes for sale and help her find the place that's perfect for her.
Unless we have another tech boom or foreign buyer boom, San Francisco home prices will likely fall a lot more in 2018 than in 2017 as the
unsold inventory of homes for sale builds up and price expectations fall.
The homeownership rate has already fallen from 69 percent in 2004 to below 67 percent in 2010, and «the farther the homeownership rate falls, the longer it will take to work through the
excess inventory of homes for sale and held off market,» the report concluded.
While inventories of homes for sale have been shrinking this spring, MLSs are filling the void with rental listings for single family homes that until recently were foreclosures.
At the current rate, it would take 6.1 months to turn over the supply of existing homes currently on the market — and just 5.6 months to turn over the stock of new homes for sale — the lowest
inventory of homes for sale since 2006.
The latest DataQuick report revealed that, «Greater demand, partially triggered by historically low mortgage rates, and a thinner
inventory of homes for sale help explain recent gains in the median price.»
«This past year, the still - tight
inventory of homes for sale in Florida couldn't meet growing buyer demand,» says Christine Hansen, 2018 president of Florida Realtors ® and broker / owner of CENTURY 21 Hansen Realty in Fort Lauderdale.
A persistent
tight inventory of homes for sale is holding back sales but pushing up home prices in most areas of the country, Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist, said in the report.
Many people trying to sell homes find that an increase in home prices, combined with a
limited inventory of homes for sale in parts of the country, have tilted the market in their favor.
«New - home buyers are returning to the market in larger numbers as firming prices,
shrinking inventories of homes for sale and improving local economies convince them that now is the time to make their move,» said Rick Judson, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Charlotte, N.C.
«Steadily rising home prices are lifting all boats in this housing market and should spill over into
more inventory of homes for sale in the coming months,» says Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.
In some markets, the main thing that's holding back a recovery is a relatively
thin inventory of homes for sale, which could be resolved if builders had easier access to credit for building homes and putting people back to work.
Six months ago, we reported that the mismatch between the type
of inventory of homes for sale and the demand of buyers in the US was causing the formation of two markets.