Ten charts that illustrate a record year for the U.S. housing market, including the highest home prices and lowest supply of all time.

Single-Family Rental Trade Association Butchers Analysis of Investor Home Purchase Reports.

The share of first-time homebuyers fell to 26% in November 2021, the lowest since January 2014. Around 24% of existing homes were purchased with all cash--only 7% of first-time home buyers could afford this approach compared to 30% of non-first-time buyers.

Median sales prices rising for existing single-family homes in all but one of 183 measured markets in the third quarter of 2021. Austin-Round Rock, TX saw the greatest price appreciation (33.5%), followed by Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL (32%), Boise City-Nampa, ID (31.5%), Ocala, FL (29.7%), and Punta Gorda, FL (27.5%).

And what is the Risk to Housing Market

As of Dec. 24, housing inventory fell from 437,000 during the prior week to 310,000, a decline of 29%. Inventory bottomed out in April 2021.

Rental prices for single-family homes rose 10.9% on average, a three-fold increase over October 2020. Rent increases were highest in Miami (29.7%), followed by Phoenix (19.3%) and Las Vegas (16.5%).

Single-family homes represented a record 74% of investor purchases. Low-priced properties made up 36% of purchases, an all-time low.

Note: I'm tracking data for many local markets around the U.S. I think it is especially important to watch inventory this year. From the C...

Montreal Area Real Estate Market Residential Sales – June 2021 L'ÎLE-DES-SŒURS, Quebec, July 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB) has just released its residential real estate market statistics for the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) for the month of June, based on the real estate brokers’ Centris provincial database. “Residential sales in the Montreal area fell significantly in June, mainly due to a historic shortage of single-

Institutional investors are not the reason why home prices are rising

March marked the highest annual rate of price growth—13.2%—since December 2005, according to the Case-Shiller index.

The median price for a single-family home in the U.S. rose the most on record in the first quarter, as buyers fought over a dearth of inventory, according to the National Association of Realtors.