Something happened in the latest home sales figures: Biggest national sales decline since April 2011.
ByThe housing recovery has really been an odd one. It has been driven by low inventory, anxious builders, and an army of investors. In the end what has occurred is that the homeownership rate is near a generational low, we have 10 million new renter households over the last decade, and home prices are up on relatively low sales volume. How can there be big sales volume when inventory is so constrained? It is a good question to ask. In any market you will have periods of capitulation, where people simply give in. You see it happening in this market where people purchase crap shacks as if taking their medicine when they were a child. The place physically sucks and is overpriced but hey, you need to do it because mommy told you it was the right thing to do. We’ve been in a holding pattern for a couple of years yet last month, sales did take a rather big drop. It was the biggest drop since April 2011. Is this simply an anomaly or are people priced out?…
