Housing Supply Squeeze Finally Begins to Ease

Housing Supply Squeeze Finally Begins to Ease
Recently constructed show homes are illuminated for potential buyers on a new housing estate in Knutsford, United Kingdom on Feb. 03, 2022. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Tribune News Service
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By Jeff Ostrowski From Bankrate.com

During the record-breaking housing boom of the past two years, a drastic under-supply of homes for sale has bedeviled buyers and delighted sellers. Now, the squeeze is slowly easing—a shift that could mark the start of a much-anticipated cooling of the white-hot housing market.