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Other market metrics, including sales volume, units sold and new listings also declined on a month-over-month basis.
Home prices were up 18.3% on a year-over-year basis and 0.6% month over month. Looking ahead, CoreLogic expects year-over-year appreciation to slow to 4.3% by June 2023.
“Contract signings to buy a home will keep tumbling down as long as mortgage rates keep climbing, as has happened this year to date.” — National Association of Realtors chief economist Lawrence Yun
At the same time, the inventory of new homes for sale rose 10.7%, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported.
The pace of new multifamily construction, however, jumped, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Housing inventory was up 30.5% year over year, while new listings were up 5.5%, according to the Atlanta REALTORS® Association.
A record number of homebuyers are relocating to more affordable areas as rising mortgage rates, high home prices, inflation and economic concerns are starting to make some areas of the country out of reach for buyers.
At the same time, the median existing-home price rose 13.4% year over year to $416,000.
Nationwide, sales hit their highest level of the year, rising 4.7% from June but falling 17.6% on a year-over-year basis, RE/MAX said.
July saw the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index post its second-largest monthly drop ever, as worries about housing affordability dampened builder sentiment.
The number of homes sold dipped 1.5% compared to May, Georgia MLS reported.
Housing inventory was also falling in the most recent Housing Scorecard.
The number of homes available to buyers climbed 18.7% in June, the sharpest year-over-year increase in the history of the report.
The median home price in the Atlanta area jumped 19.4% year over year to $430,000 in May, despite a sharp rise in interest rates since the beginning of the year.
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The increase ends a six-month string of monthly declines, the National Association of REALTORS® said.
