The leading indicators for sales prices continue to spike too. The median price of the newly listed homes (light red line here) this week jumped 1.3% to $369,900.
That tells us that future transaction prices will continue to be 10-12% or more higher for 2022.
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Immediate Sales as a percentage of the new listings continues to grow. A third(!) of the new listings that hit the market this week went into contract immediately. See the light portion of each line grow each week (right end of this chart)
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Immediate sale are new listings and new sales (contracts) in the same week.
As a proportion of the new contracts, the immediate sales keeps growing too. 27% of all the deals were immediate.
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Pricing strength shows up in our price reductions stat too. Only 19% of the homes on the market have taken a price cut. Lower than last year(!) and way lower than normal.
This tells us prices will stay elevated for future transactions.
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Market time is starting the year at record low. DOM only falls from here. Median DOM is 56 days. Even the most expensive homes in the US ($1Mil +) are moving quickly, DOM falling fast.
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Full details in the video.
Housing Inventory - How Low Can We Go?
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The post on the Altos Research blog has the transcript and details for this week's video.
Volatility in stock and crypto markets not enough to slow housing (yet). Here's what we can see in the data - this week's @altosresearch ๐ฝ๏ธ๐งต๐
Available inventory of unsold single family homes fell by 2.4% this week to only 277,000 homes on the market. New record low.
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The percentage of new listings that are going into contract essentially immediate is climbing(!) up to 32% this week. Nuts.
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Since those immediate sales are both new inventory AND new sales in the same week, here's the other view. Immediate sales are 25% of all those going into contract this week. (We started tracking immediate sales last year.)
The big news is how fast the Price of the New Listings jumped this week (light red line here). PNL captures what sellers already know about demand in their market.
This year's jump is higher, faster than we expected.
These are prices for *future* transactions.
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Another leading indicator: Price increases for homes that we saw on the market last fall. Compare to January of 2019 after a year of rising rates in 2018, price increases were muted with demand.
Price increases are spiking again like last year. ๐ฅ๐ฎ
Prepare for bidding wars 3/6
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Surprise! Inventory of homes for sale is actually falling faster than expected for this time of year.
Down to just over 400,000 single family homes on the market. Inventory fell by 3% this week.
This week's thread and video with the #altosresearch real estate data
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Demand is staying elevated even as supply shrinks for the holidays. One place to see that is in our Immediate Sales tracker. Still 25% of the new listings of homes for sale are going into contract essentially immediately each week, even as total volume ticks down.
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Another place to see demand strong relative to supply is in the Altos Research Market Action Index. See how the readings have actually been ticking up this fall, when normally they'd be flat to down.
Home buyers tapping into late summer opportunities!
Even as inventory ticks up this week, prices are holding strong. Median home price in the US this week is $389,000, unchanged from a week ago.
Weekly @AltosResearch US real estate market data thread and video ๐งต๐
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We're looking at 10% annual price gains as we wrap summer. You can see the market has cooled down from the insanity of April.
In a few months the lagging measures of home prices, like the Case Shiller will catch up with the Altos data here.
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Inventory rose this week. Up 1.4% to 437,000 unsold single family homes. Even though the 2021 cycle has shifted later by a month, it's likely we're roughly at peak inventory.
Still 25% fewer homes available than last year, but up 42% from the bottom.