by Calculated Risk on 10/28/2024 08:11:00 AM
Monday, October 28, 2024
Housing Oct 28th Weekly Update: Inventory Down 0.2% Week-over-week, Up 31.2% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 0.2% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 49.4% 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 31.2% compared to the same week in 2023 (last week it was up 33.4%), and down 20.2% compared to the same week in 2019 (last week it was down 21.0%).
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 25th, inventory was at 738 thousand (7-day average), compared to 739 thousand the prior week.
Mike Simonsen discusses this data regularly on Youtube.