DOWNWARD SPIRAL: Existing home sales tumble for 10th straight month as rates, inflation soar
There were about 1.14 million homes for sale at the end of November, according to the report, a decline of 6.6% from October but up about 2.7% from one year ago. Homes sold on average in just 24 days, up from 21 days in October and 18 days one year ago. Before the pandemic, homes typically sat on the market for about a month before being sold.
At the current pace of sales, it would take roughly 3.3 months to exhaust the inventory of existing homes. Experts view a pace of six to seven months as a healthy level. aggressive campaign to tighten policy and slow the economy. Policymakers already lifted the benchmark federal funds rate seven consecutive times – including four 75-basis-point increases in June, July, September and November – and have indicated they plan to continue raising rates higher in 2023 as they try to crush inflation that is still abnormally high.The average rate for afell to 6.31% last week, according to recent data from mortgage lender Freddie Mac. While that is significantly higher than just one year ago when rates stood at 3.
However, even with higher interest rates putting homeownership out of reach for millions of Americans, prices are still steeper than just one year ago. The median price of an existing home sold in November was $370,700, a 3.5% increase from the same time a year ago. This marks the 129th consecutive month of year-over-year home price increases, the longest-running streak on record.
Prices did decline slightly from the high of $413,800 recorded in June, part of a usual trend of prices declining after peaking in the early summer.
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