Want To Buy A House? Good Luck Finding One
The number houses for sale in the United States reached a record low in December, realtor.com reported Thursday in its Monthly Housing Trends Report. There were fewer than 700,000 homes for sale in the US for the first time in the report’s history. The report found: The number of homes for sale was down 39.6 percent – which amounts to 449,000 fewer homes for sale than last December.The median listing price grew 13.4 percent over last year to $340,000.Homes sold in 66 days on average in December, which is 13 days faster than last year. “The shortage of homes for sale has been an ongoing issue for the last couple of years, but in December the combination of the holiday…