Lawrence Yun, chief economist for NAR pointed out that sales activity is continuing to grow in all four regions of the United States. He goes on to state:
"Job growth in most of the country continues to carry on at a robust level and is starting to slowly push up wages, which is in turn giving households added assurance that now is a good time to buy a home. While the housing market gained a little more momentum last month, sales are still below year ago levels because low inventory is limiting choices for prospective buyers and keeping price growth elevated."
The total amount of inventory decreased once again in October as there were only 1.8 million homes available for sale. This is a decrease of 10.4% year over year. As a result of lower inventory, existing home prices have gone up by 5.5% ($247,000) during the same period.
Of note for us living in the New York City region is that existing home sales in the Northeast rose 4.2% to an annual rate of 740,000. The average price in the Northeast has increase to $272,800 which is a 6.6% increase year over year.
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