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Are Listings Getting Less Scarce?

Posted on June 1, 2012June 1, 2012 by The Tim

A reader emailed me to ask if I have “seen a bump in inventory” in the last few weeks. Unfortunately, I haven’t. Here’s a look at new listings by week since the beginning of the year, with last year plotted for comparison:

King County Single Family Home Listings in 2012

The number of new listings each week did bump up a bit between mid-March and mid-April, but has been fairly steady since then, up until a big drop in the last week of May.

Here’s a look at the total on-market inventory each week compared to a year ago:

King County Single Family Home Listings in 2012

The long slide continues, straight through what is typically a period of steady increases in inventory. Last year the total number of listings on the market increased 11% between the first week of the year and the last week of May. This year, that number has fallen 18%, and still shows no sign of picking up any time soon. Ouch.

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