{"id":94,"date":"2026-10-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:00:00","slug":"us-inventory-growth-slows-stays-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/us-inventory-growth-slows-stays-soft\/","title":{"rendered":"US Inventory Growth Slows Stays Soft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/kathy-blevins-stockley\/states-housing-inventory-5610\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>As someone who\u2019s spent over 35 years guiding buyers and sellers through real estate changes in Oxford, Lapeer, and Lake Orion, I keep a close eye on housing inventory trends\u2014both nationally and here at home. By Mid-Q3 2026, national active inventory reached 1.14 million, up about 4% from last year\u2019s 1.1 million. That\u2019s still growth, but it\u2019s a much gentler pace compared to the sharp 21% annual gain we saw a year earlier. Even after a brief slowdown (just 2% growth in late Q2), the market hasn\u2019t fully bounced back to pre-pandemic levels. Eighteen states and DC have surpassed their 2019 inventory, yet nationally we\u2019re still about 8% below where we were in Mid-Q3 2019, with 1.14 million active listings versus 1.24 million. What does this mean for buyers and sellers? The post-boom cooling period has eased, and the market remains soft with flat prices\u2014while higher yields and mortgage rates could still affect momentum. I always keep my clients informed, so you can make decisions confidently, no matter which direction the market turns.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who\u2019s spent over 35 years guiding buyers and sellers through real estate changes in Oxford, Lapeer, and Lake Orion, I keep a close eye on housing inventory trends\u2014both nationally and here at home. By Mid-Q3 2026, national active inventory reached 1.14 million, up about 4% from last year\u2019s 1.1 million. That\u2019s still growth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}