by Calculated Risk on 10/14/2024 08:17:00 AM
Monday, October 14, 2024
Housing Oct 14th Weekly Update: Inventory Down 0.3% Week-over-week, Up 34.0% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 0.3% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 48.3% from the February seasonal bottom.
The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family inventory since 2015.
The red line is for 2024. The black line is for 2019.
Inventory was up 34.0% compared to the same week in 2023 (last week it was up 36.7%), and down 22/6% compared to the same week in 2019 (last week it was down 23.1%).
Back in June 2023, inventory was down almost 54% compared to 2019, so the gap to more normal inventory levels is closing.
As of October 11th, inventory was at 732 thousand (7-day average), compared to 734 thousand the prior week.
Mike Simonsen discusses this data regularly on Youtube.