Friday, February 28, 2014

Homebuyers Gaining Bargaining Power as Inventory Increases

By Zillow | Posted Feb 20th 2014 4:25PM
Updated Feb 21st 2014 10:54AM

Row of nice homes on a street, all of them for sale
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By: Camille Salama

Home values saw their smallest monthly increase since May 2012, up just 0.2 percent in January from December according to the latest Zillow Real Estate Market Reports. Year-over-year, U.S. home values rose 6.3 percent in January, down from peak gains of 7.1 percent in August 2013. This slowdown is in part due to the rise in inventory of for-sale homes across the country. The number of homes listed for sale on Zillow was up 11.1 percent annually in January, the fifth straight month of rising year-over-year inventory.

Stan Humphries, home shoppers should expect to have more buying power this spring as more inventory comes onto the market and home prices start to level off. This slightly more balanced market is another step on the road back to normal, and will help offset the impact of rising mortgage rates and more expensive homes for buyers.

Inventory rose year-over-year in 82 percent of metro areas covered by Zillow, with the largest inventory gains coming in some of the areas that were hit hardest by the housing recession, including Las Vegas (up 42.8 percent), Phoenix (up 30.5 percent) and Sacramento (up 26 percent). These metros also experienced significant cooling in the pace of home value appreciation in January, as buyers had more homes to choose from and were less apt to engage in the kinds of bidding wars that helped drive prices up so quickly last year.

Want to know what the current state of the housing market is where you live? Dive into Zillow's data, available all the way down to ZIP code and neighborhood levels, here.

For a deeper analysis from Dr. Stan Humphries visit Zillow Research.

Home Value and Inventory Trends in the 35 Largest Markets
U.S. Metro
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Jan. 2014
Y-o-Y % change in ZHVI
Median # of Homes for Sale on Zillow, Jan. 2014
Y-o-Y % Change in Inventory
United States
$169,600
6.3%
1,512,949
11.1%
New York, NY
$369,900
6.7%
73,794
9.0%
Los Angeles, CA
$501,300
17.3%
19,935
0.3%
Chicago, IL
$178,100
9.1%
38,868
-4.5%
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
$144,400
4.6%
21,379
-12.3%
Philadelphia, PA
$193,700
3.0%
31,024
5.2%
Houston, TX
$143,700
3.8%
22,630
-13.2%
Washington, DC
$345,500
9.0%
13,847
14.6%
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL
$187,100
18.9%
36,627
7.7%
Atlanta, GA
$137,600
16.2%
22,925
10.7%
Boston, MA
$351,600
8.0%
13,915
-11.2%
San Francisco, CA
$642,400
18.4%
4,188
-1.8%
Detroit, MI
$106,600
20.0%
15,520
-1.8%
Riverside, CA
$259,600
27.3%
13,607
18.0%
Phoenix, AZ
$187,000
10.2%
20,607
30.5%
Seattle, WA
$310,000
9.6%
8,984
12.7%
Minneapolis-St Paul, MN
$197,300
7.8%
10,243
15.0%
San Diego, CA
$442,500
16.3%
6,820
-12.3%
St. Louis, MO
$131,500
-3.3%
17,509
6.9%
Tampa, FL
$135,700
16.4%
19,735
15.4%
Baltimore, MD
$237,300
5.5%
10,493
9.4%
Denver, CO
$243,900
8.0%
7,827
-3.8%
Pittsburgh, PA
$121,000
7.2%
11,678
9.0%
Portland, OR
$260,500
10.9%
7,067
9.1%
Sacramento, CA
$306,200
21.8%
3,929
26.0%
San Antonio, TX
$146,600
2.3%
8,023
-13.6%
Orlando, FL
$155,200
19.8%
9,168
22.0%
Cincinnati, OH
$131,900
4.1%
9,925
1.3%
Cleveland, OH
$115,700
1.4%
11,527
-3.5%
Kansas City, MO
$139,100
2.8%
9,551
-1.4%
Las Vegas, NV
$168,800
26.9%
8,412
42.8%
San Jose, CA
$744,800
14.5%
1,764
-5.9%
Columbus, OH
$137,300
7.7%
8,965
1.8%
Charlotte, NC
$147,600
6.0%
10,406
8.4%
Austin, TX
$201,500
7.0%
4,330
-12.8%
Virginia Beach, VA
$206,200
3.6%
11,184
15.3%

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