{"id":3839,"date":"2023-01-03T21:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/03\/altos-research-2023-housing-inventory-lower-than-expected\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:48:35","slug":"altos-research-2023-housing-inventory-lower-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/03\/altos-research-2023-housing-inventory-lower-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Altos: 2023 housing inventory lower than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Mike Simonsen, president of&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/hw-media-acquires-altos-research-to-expand-access-to-real-time-housing-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Altos Research<\/a>,<\/strong>&nbsp;digs into the data each week to offer real estate professionals insight on the real-time market.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve turned the corner of the new year with probably the lowest inventory week for all of 2023.&nbsp;During the pandemic, inventory kept falling during January, February, and March as demand dramatically exceeded new supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year we\u2019re getting back to normal behavior, new listings start hitting the market just after the first of the year. Some listings that were withdrawn over the holidays are back, many with <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/altos-research-how-far-will-home-prices-drop-before-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lower prices<\/a>. Since demand is significantly lower than the last few Januarys, we should see inventory rising starting next week. And definitely rising later in the month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-housingwire-piano-member\"><div id=\"membership-content\">\n<p>The real signal for the full spring and \u2014 therefore for the whole year \u2014 comes between the second and third week of January. So stay tuned for the next few weeks and we\u2019ll watch whether buyers are just looking or ready to take action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/isslyerPTKc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week, we at <strong>Altos Research<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altosresearch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">track every home<\/a> for sale in the country. We analyze all the pricing, supply and demand, and all the changes in that data and we make it available to you before you see it in the traditional channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-data-for-the-first-week-of-2023\">Data for the first week of 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The median price of single family homes on the market across the country fell by just over 1% this week to $405,000. I expect prices will rebound with the new inventory in a couple weeks. This price rebound happens every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because affordability is still dramatically reduced with <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.housingwire.com\/mortgage-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mortgage rates<\/a> well over 6%, the thing I\u2019m watching for is how small or big the bounce in prices gets this month. It\u2019d be very bearish if home prices keep falling weekly like they have since May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of right now, the signals look like we\u2019ll have a small seasonal price increase in the next few weeks.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The median price of the newly listed homes took its annual Christmas\/New Year\u2019s week dip and will rebound in next week\u2019s data. This is somewhat impacted by the fact that New Years fell over the weekend. We\u2019ll get some new listings this week and maybe more in next week\u2019s data. So we might have two weeks of the January rebound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inventory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Buyers have significantly more selection than they\u2019ve had in several years, though we ended 2022 with fewer than 500,000 single family homes on the market. Back in June, inventory was climbing so quickly it looked like we might have significantly higher inventory to start this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are indeed 67% more homes on the market right now than when we started last year. Last year, buyers were grabbing everything they could while money was still cheap. At 490,000 homes, though, it\u2019s still 39% fewer than the start of 2020 before the pandemic hit. At that time, there were 782,000 homes on the market to start the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local markets vary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve talked about this in our <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/altos-mike-simonsens-2023-housing-market-outlook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monthly webinars<\/a>, which is that some of the country, the midwest and northeast, is still very low inventory, and the biggest boom markets like Phoenix and Austin now have more inventory than they did pre-pandemic. So this spring is playing out to be very different depending on your local market.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile there are only 251,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. That\u2019s 35% fewer than last year. The pendings announcements from the <strong>National Association of Realtors<\/strong> are going to continue to be shockingly low for the next couple months. And that means the sales volume will be very low too. These homes in contract are transactions that will close in January or February and visible in March. All those headline numbers will be very low.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pendings data will take a few weeks longer than the active market to rebound, but will start climbing later in the month. Only 30,000 new pendings this week, which is low as you\u2019d expect over the holidays, and is also a third lower than last year at this time. The light red portion of each bar is the new pendings each week. The total bar is the total count of those homes in contract in the given week. You can see how low compared to last year. The dip in the middle of this chart is New Years week 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Price reductions fell pretty quickly over the holidays <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 38% of the homes on the market have had a price cut in the last few months. The market is a lot slower than recent years. Price reductions will continue to decline as fresh inventory gets listed in the next couple months.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If price reductions nationally get under 35%, that\u2019ll be a pretty normal range and a signal that buyers are finding some ability to buy. 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With economy fears, fewer people are forming households, so the demand is lower on rental units as well as for purchases.&nbsp;Hopefully soon the inflation numbers catch up to reality and the housing inflation portion of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) starts to subside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much to see in the local data right now. 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