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Home / Intelligence / Homes Sold Quickly and Supply Shortage Remains

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Shu Chen
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  • November 3, 2021

Homes Sold Quickly and Supply Shortage Remains

Time on Market Before Pending Dropped from Weeks to Days

Supply shortages have been a hallmark of the pandemic. Not only is the U.S. facing a labor shortage, but many building materials are in short supply, slowing down new home construction and making it difficult for some sellers to prepare their existing homes for sale. The shortage in for-sale homes has driven the number of days homes are on the market to new lows in 2021.

Figure 1: Months Supply By Price Tier (September)  

Figure 1 shows the months of supply of homes for sale overall and by price tier1 in September 2021 before and during the pandemic. The months of supply was already near a record low in 2019 but fell more over the next two years. Lower income households, which suffered most of the job loss at the beginning of the pandemic, most likely put aside their purchase plan for entry level homes. But competition from homebuyers and increased investor purchases in 2021 drove down supply and as of September 2021, supply for all price tiers is down compared to 2019.

With strong homebuying demand, homes go under contract2 within days. Before the pandemic, the time from listing to pending usually took about three to five weeks, depending on the home buying season. Starting April 2021, it only took about a week for a listing to become pending. Figure 2 shows the median days on market between when a listing goes live and pending for all the sales within the month. 

Figure 2: Median Days on Market Before Pending


As always, for-sale supply and demand vary by local markets. Figure 3 shows the days on market before pending for selected 20 CBSAs in September of 2019-2021. Homes sold quickest in hot markets like Charlotte, Denver and Seattle, with median days-on-market before pending less than a week. San Francisco experienced an increase in days on market in 2020, as flexibility of telework allowed people to move to less expensive areas with more space. However, going into 2021, with supply remaining tight and mortgage rates staying low, all markets showed a sharp decrease in days-on-market compared to pre-pandemic. 

Figure 3: Days-on-Market Before Pending by Metro


With mortgage rates remaining low, motivated buyers pushed the for-sale home supply down to new lows and home price appreciation to the highest rates in the history of the CoreLogic HPI. As home prices keep reaching new highs, outpacing wage growth, many potential homebuyers may need to turn to renting instead of buying. In addition, increases in homebuilding could also help lessen the supply shortage situation. 

1The months of supply, or months of inventory, is calculated as the ratio of the for-sale inventory at the end of the month to the number of homes sold during the same month, and represents the number of months it would take to sell the inventory at that month’s sales pace. The U.S. statistics are based on data for 68 metropolitan areas. To determine the price tier, the median list price was the median of homes listed in the 68 metropolitan areas for the given month.

2As part of the home sale timeline, buyers can put in a contract for a home with or without contingencies. If a contract contains contingencies, the status is considered “under contract” or “Contingent”, but will be moved to “pending,” once the contingencies are removed. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shu Chen
Shu Chen
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