After years of skyrocketing home prices, an oversupply of homes for sale in the New Orleans area -- nearing levels not seen since the oil bust -- is pushing overall prices down by thousands of dollars and all but erasing the giant gains in appreciation homeowners have seen during the past seven years.
On the east bank of New Orleans, there were 3,134 homes on the market through June 18, compared with 2,893 during the same time in 2006 and 2,073 in 2005.Sterbcow said there is a 14-month supply of homes priced between $350,000 to $400,000, meaning that the number of homes in that price range would take 14 months to sell out at the current pace. In a market where supply and demand are fairly balanced, there should be only a five-month inventory of homes for sale, he said.
New Orleans like many other metropolitan areas, across the US, are facing a declining housing market.
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