Scraping the Bottom
The active inventory, buyer demand, and the number of homeowners willing to sell have been bouncing around a bottom all year, so it is only up from here.
For many, peanut butter is a delectable treat that is wonderful on crackers, toast, bananas, celery and an incredible additional ingredient in chocolate and cookies. The jar often gets to a point where it necessitates scraping the bottom for every last morsel. When it is this low, it is just a matter of time before everything changes; a new jar is opened, and there is plenty of peanut butter to dip into.
Housing is just like that peanut bar jar. The supply of available homes, the number of homeowners willing to sell, and buyer demand are all very low, scraping the bottom compared to normal levels before COVID and sky-high mortgage rates. The current trend lines for these metrics cannot get much lower than where they are today. They have been at these low levels all year. It is just a matter of time before they start to rise from this established bottom.
Excerpt taken from an article by Steven Thomas.
