Given low inventory levels, experience suggests that house prices should be rising at double their current rate of around 5% y/y. But with low numbers of existing homes for sale, the behaviour of builders may be having a larger influence on overall house prices than usual. And, unlike homeowners, builders have a stronger incentive to secure a quick sale, rather than hold out for the highest conceivable price.
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