Sunday, May 1, 2022 / by Bryan Baylon
May 1, 2022 Market Update
Supply has been arriving in greater quantities over the past few weeks, This applies to both rental and for-sale listings.
The most dramatic rises are in rentals. There were 2,550 new rental listings created in the last 4 weeks, which is up 45% from the same 4 weeks of 2021. For 2022 year-to-date we have seen 26% more new listings (10,072 versus 7,995).
Residential for-sale listings added over the last 28 days number 10,476, up from 10,387 in the same period of 2021, a 0.9% increase. Year to date we have seen 40,198, down from 40,580 last year.
The problem for the market is that this extra supply is coming just as demand is dropping fast.
The for-sale active listing count (excluding UCB and CCBS) across all areas & types has jumped 27% in just 4 weeks. This is even faster than we experienced in April 2005. That's a scary percentage, even though the absolute numbers remain small. If this growth rate persists through May and June, the market will be very different by July.
Market incites provided by the Cromford report.