American existing home sales inch down

In July, American home sales went down for the fourth month in a row. It was caused by a deficiency of houses on the market had home prices underpinned, probably driving off some potential clients.

On Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors shared information that existing home sales inched down by 0.7% to a seasonally updated annual rate of 5.34 million units the previous month. Eventually, July's sink marked the longest losing monthly marathon since 2013.

Market analysts interviewed by Reuters had foreseen that existing home sales would ascend by 0.6% to a rate of nearly 5.40 million units in July. As a matter of fact, sales went down across the Northeast, Midwest, and South, although rallied in the West.

Existing home sales, accounting for nearly 90% of American home sales, slumped by 1.5% from 2017 in July. Sales have been suppressed by steep deficiencies of property on the market for 7 months. However, the NAR told that inventory demonstrated indications of stabilizing in July.

In July, there were 1.92 million houses on the market, intact from 2017. It turned out to be the first month for three years in which inventory didn’t slump on a year-on-year basis. That’s what some financial analysts pointed out.

Jumping building materials costs combined with shortages of land as well as labor have virtually left builders absolutely unable to cope with the inventory gap, backing house prices. Additionally, supply constraints have mostly had to do with the sluggish housing market, although there are soaring worries that the higher house prices together with strengthening mortgage rates will speed down demand.

At July's sales tempo, it would take up to 4.3 months to have the current inventory exhausted. A supply of 6-7 months is considered to be a rational compromise between demand and supply.

As for the median house price, it rallied by 4.5% from 2017 hitting $269,600 in July.

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