Inventory remains critically low for most price classes
AUSTIN, TX–The Austin-area housing market’s declining inventory and robust sales trends are creating an increasingly competitive housing market across all price classes, according to the latest Central Texas Housing Market Report from the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR).
“In the Austin-Round Rock MSA, price classes across the board are seeing an increase in demand with a decrease in inventory,” Steve Crorey, 2018 president of the Austin Board of REALTORS®, said. “While new listings are up year-over-year, homes are selling faster than they can be listed on the market. This has led to a smaller number of active listings and an increasingly competitive market for homebuyers.”
Within the Austin-Round Rock MSA, new listings increased 5.6 percent to 4,139 listings; active listings decreased 2.8 percent to 6,154 listings; and pending sales rose 14.3 percent to 3,320 pending sales. The median price of single-family homes in the Austin-Round Rock MSA increased 3.8 percent year-over-year to $316,000 in April 2018. Housing inventory decreased 0.2 months year-over-year to 2.4 months of inventory during the same time frame.
