U.S. home prices fell year-over-year in February for the first time since 2012

Unsold homes start to stack up

The U.S. supply of new homes relative to sales in June was the highest since the middle of the last crash in 2010. In early July, buyer traffic to homebuilder websites and sales offices had plunged to the lowest level for the month since 2012, according to a survey of builder sentiment from the National Association of Home Builders. Here’s the problem: a pandemic housing boom led builders to start construction because the market had too little inventory. In June, 824,000 single-family homes were under construction in the United States, more than at any time since October 2006, according to an NAHB analysis. Now those home builders are having trouble selling those homes