The 18 states back above pre-pandemic 2019 housing market inventory levels

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Nationally aggregated inventory is up +3.8% on a year-over-year basis between August 31, 2025 and August 31, 2026. While that’s accelerated a tad from the +1.9% year-over-year inventory growth low point in June, it’s decelerated significantly since last year. If you go back 12 months, that year-over-year national inventory growth rate was much higher (+20.8%). After a peri...