US Housing Market Shifts Toward Equilibrium as Buyer Leverage Grows

This shift suggests that the long-standing imbalance favoring property owners is dissipating. As interest rates and inventory levels fluctuate, the pendulum has begun to swing back toward a middle ground where buyers possess more negotiation power than they have held since the survey began. The data points to a broader stabilization, ending a period defined by extreme scarcity and aggressive bidding wars that once locked many potential homeowners out of the market entirely.