A low Days on Market average, like 66 seen in October, is the direct result of continued high demand and
a reduced inventory of homes for sale.
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.
Not exact matches
The white paper, The U.S. Housing Market: Current Conditions and Policy Considerations, calls
for increased lending to creditworthy
home buyers and more loan modifications, mortgage refinancings, and short
sales to
reduce the rising
inventory of foreclosed
homes and help stabilize and revitalize the housing industry; an approach long recommended by NAR to help spur the housing market recovery.
Improving access to affordable mortgage financing
for qualified
home buyers and investors and committing additional resources to loan modifications and short
sales will help
reduce current and future
inventories of real estate owned (REO) properties held by government agencies, according to the National Association
of Realtors ®.
This is good news
for investors as it should provide more
inventory of homes for sale thereby
reducing competition.
Reports around the country indicate that the
inventory drought is
reducing the number
of expired listings and encouraging owners who took their
homes off the market to relist them
for sale.