The US housing slowdown is getting harder to ignore
Home prices in America’s 20 largest cities dropped 0.16% in March, marking the second monthly decline in a row after 6 straight months of increases
Annual price growth slowed to just 0.83%, the weakest YoY gain since July 2023
More than half of the major US housing markets are now negative on a year-over-year basis
The sharpest drops came from:
• Seattle: -2.5%
• Denver: -2.0%
• Tampa: -1.9%
• Dallas: -1.7%
• Los Angeles: -1.6%
• Phoenix: -1.6%
The gap between the strongest and weakest cities has widened to 8.6 percentage points, showing that the slowdown is not hitting every market the same way
And after adjusting for inflation, real home prices have now declined for 10 consecutive months
The housing market is no longer just slowing
It is starting to split