Housing Dec 16th Weekly Update: Inventory down 1.1% Week-over-week, Up 26.6% Year-over-year

Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 1.1% week-over-week.  Inventory is now 7.7% below the peak for the year (8 weeks ago).

Inventory will continue to decline seasonally until early next year.

The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family inventory since 2015.

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The red line is for 2024.  The black line is for 2019.  

Inventory was up 26.6% compared to the same week in 2023 (last week it was up 26.3%), and down 17.0% compared to the same week in 2019 (last week it was down 16.8%). 

Back in June 2023, inventory was down almost 54% compared to 2019, so the gap to more normal inventory levels has closed significantly!

This second inventory graph is courtesy of Altos Research.

As of Dec 13th, inventory was at 682 thousand (7-day average), compared to 690 thousand the prior week. 

Mike Simonsen discusses this data regularly on Youtube.