Dec 17, 2021
Happy Holidays! I don’t have a Top Gifts list for you, or a year-end Best Of post. But I will point you to a new offering from one of my favorite econ bloggers, Bill McBride. Subscribe to his new Calculated Risk Newsletter. Learn why household formation might be...
Nov 18, 2021
We are sitting on 1.2 Months of Inventory for October 2021. That is derived from a faster pace of closings (467 vs 450) and fewer homes in the market (665 vs. 778) when compared to October 2020. Average days on the market fell to 58 days (from 74 in 10/2020). Median...
Oct 15, 2021
Basic economic theory says when supply is low and demand is high, prices increase. September inventory was low in Lubbock (592 Active Listings; 1.3 MOI). Demand was still high (8.7% YoY volume increase), and prices reflected that (24.7% YoY price increase through...
Sep 14, 2021
We’ve seen some relief in the Months-of-Inventory category, and that supply-constraint has affected sales volume (transaction count and prices) as we’ve discussed. But I want to highlight another metric to tell that story. In “normal” times (or at least in a market...
Aug 19, 2021
We are starting to see just the barest edges of softening (think moving out of the blast furnace, into the mere lava). July 2021 Months-of-Inventory crawled up to 1.2 for all residential types. We remain 10.4% up YoY on closed units sales, up 27.3% in YoY total closed...
Jul 20, 2021
Lubbock MLS numbers for June 2021 reflected 1.1 Months of Inventory, boosted significantly by 2.2 Months of Inventory in newly constructed homes (tongue firmly in cheek on the “boosted significantly”). Both existing home sales and new home sales are far from the “6...
