What Increased Housing Supply Means for Current Homeowners
At first glance, the increase in housing supply may not sound like good news for sellers, but it does gives you two distinct opportunities in today’s housing market. An article from Calculated Risk helps put the inventory gains the market saw in 2022 into perspective by comparing it to recent years ( see graph below ). It shows supply has surpassed 2021 levels by over 50%. But the further back you look, the more you’ll understand the bigger picture. And if you go all the way back to 2019, the last normal year in real estate, we’re roughly 30% below the housing supply we had at that time.
While It’s Grown, Housing Supply Is Still Low Inventory the Week Ending November 25 th , Compared To Last 3 Years
-45% -30% -15% 0% 15% 30% 45% 60%
50.3%
12.9%
Same week inSa2m02e1week iSna2m02e0week in 2019 -34.4%
Source: Calculated Risk
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