The inventory of homes for sale continues at a very low level with 2,999 current active listings. There are 992 homes under contract and 497 are shown as under construction or to be built so there are just 1,510 net active listings. This is down from 1,711 last month and with a demand of 5,000 homes over the next six months there is a two month supply, well below the six month requirement for a balanced market.

The DOM (days on market) continues to reflect the lack of inventory as the November sales were on the market for just 47 days to offer and 78 days to close. This compares to 65 and 98 days last year.

There have been 1,538 new homes sold for the year to date, a 20% improvement over last year but the share of total home sales has improved only very slightly from 14.8% last year to 15.2% this year. As we have been stressing, we are about at the peak of resale home supply and need to increase the construction of new homes to keep pace with the demand. And we need to remember, if a home owner decides to sell their current home and buy another home, that does not help the inventory one bit. The only way we gain inventory is for sellers to move away – and we certainly don’t want to encourage that - or to build more homes!