by Calculated Risk on 2/07/2022 09:43:00 AM

Tracking existing home inventory is very important in 2022.

Inventory usually declines in the winter, and this is a new record low for this series.

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This inventory graph is courtesy of Altos Research.

As of February 4th, inventory was at 256 thousand (7-day average), compared to 355 thousand for the same week a year ago.  That is a decline of 27.9%.   A week ago, inventory was at 272 thousand, and was down 25.9% YoY.    

Inventory was down 5.9% from the previous week.

Compared to the same week in 2020, inventory is down 64.6% from 722 thousand.

Last year, seasonally, inventory bottomed in April 2021 - very late in the year - usually inventory bottoms by February. An early key in 2022 will be to watch if inventory bottoms earlier this year.

Mike Simonsen discusses this data regularly on Youtube.