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Lack Of Supply Continues To Provide House Price Support

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  • Average existing home sale prices fell -0.9% Y/Y in June, in an improvement from the -3.0% Y/Y of May that for now at least looks to be a low for the rate of decline with very little payback after prices surged post-pandemic.
  • It’s helped by the continued low level of housing inventory, which remained unchanged at 1.08m units and saw the months of supply only tick up a tenth to 3.1.
  • NAR’s Yun noted "There are simply not enough homes for sale […] The market can easily absorb a doubling of inventory" and indeed the chart below shows that whilst months of supply are slowing creeping higher, they remain at least 1 month below levels for this time of year in the pre-pandemic era and considerably below the low double digits of late 2007-early 2009.

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