{"id":18,"date":"2026-05-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:00:00","slug":"inventory-nears-normal-growth-slows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Inventory Nears Normal, Growth Slows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sharon-nelson\/housing-inventory-growth\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Housing inventory growth slowed in 2026 because listings already rebounded from record lows, making further yearly gains harder without weaker demand or much stronger new supply.<br \/>\nCurrent active listings sit near 1.36M. The analyst said a healthy market works with 1.52M-1.93M listings and &gt;4 mo of supply.<br \/>\nLast year\u2019s peak inventory growth hit \u219133%, but that came off a much lower base. As inventory normalized, matching that pace became much tougher.<br \/>\nMortgage rates stayed above mid-6% for most of the current year. The analyst said lower rates make inventory growth harder in this market.<br \/>\nExisting home sales had gone nowhere for years, yet inventory climbed from record-depressed levels toward normal, helping keep prices in check as wages outgrew prices.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing inventory growth slowed in 2026 because listings already rebounded from record lows, making further yearly gains harder without weaker demand or much stronger new supply. Current active listings sit near 1.36M. The analyst said a healthy market works with 1.52M-1.93M listings and &gt;4 mo of supply. Last year\u2019s peak inventory growth hit \u219133%, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}