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The pandemic housing boom period, in the spring of 2020, in the spring of 2022, the number of active houses for sale in most housing markets, and won everything that was on sale and the last power of the sellers. Wherever the existing housing market and active inventory rose to the level of 2019 (due to violating the buyer’s request), homebuyers are the most powerful places.
At the end of June 2025, the national active housing inventory for sale was still below June 2019. However, more regional markets exceed this limit.
This list is growing:
- January 2025: 41 of the largest subway area, housing markets returned as a pandemic before the level of inventory of 2019.
- February 2025: 44 of the largest subway area in 44, Housing Markets were above pandemic before the 2019 inventory level.
- March 2025: 58 of the largest subway area, housing markets returned as a pandemic again before the 2019 Inventory level.
- In April 2025: 69th apartment markets of the largest subway area on 69 were pandemically retreated before the inventory level of 2019.
- 2025: 75, 75 of the 200 major market was above the Pandemic 2019 inventory level.
Now, in late June 2025, 78 of the latest readings in the latest readings are above the Pandemic 2019 inventory level and Resistub This year awaits that it will continue to grow this year.
This is the next table that helps you see that the same 78 market inventory appears now and as seen as last year.
Among these 78 markets you will find many things in solar belt markets like Florida, Texas, Arizona and Colorado.
Most softest housing markets earned by homebuyers are located in the Gulf Coast and mountain western regions. Some of these areas were among the best pandemic boomtowns of the nation living in a significant home price increase during the boom of a pandemic landscape of the pandemic landscape outside the local income level.
When the pandemic fueled domestic migration is slowed down and mortgaged rates, Texas Kap Coral, Florida and San Antonio, the company faced problems for the company to protect their dog house prices. In these areas, the emollient in the softening housing market, the softening was accelerated in the solar pipeline with the abundance of new home supplies in the pipeline. In these regions, builders often want to make other suitable adjustments to reduce net effective prices or save sales. These amendments in the new construction market also create a cooling effect in the sale market, because some buyers who can prefer a house have turned their attention to new houses where transactions are still available.
On the contrary, many northeastern and Midwest markets have been relied less for pandemic migration and the less new home construction continues. With less exposure to the demand shock, this Midwest and the northeastern regions remained relatively strong, maintaining an active inventory in the hands of active inventory, home vendors.
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In general, in the places where inventory (ie active lists) are back to pandemic levels, housing markets live a softer / weak home price increase (or open landing) within the last 36 months. On the contrary, where the inventory is far from the pandemic level, in general, there is a home price increase in more than the last 36 months.
Resistub Pro members can find the latest inventory analysis for +800 subway and +3,000 countries, and why the comparison of the 2019 inventory shows that it remains informed about it.