Austin Housing Market ‘Distress’ Sees Prices Slashed by Over 30 Percent [Video]

Austin’s housing market is in “acute distress” as newly built homes continue flooding the market at the same time as sales plummet in the Texas capital, according to a new study by Parcl Labs.

The former pandemic boomtown has been building more homes than most of the country in the past five years, as demand and prices skyrocketed during the health emergency when so many out-of-state Americans wanted to move to the city.

According to Parcl Labs, which analyzed 300 U.S. housing markets to identify high-growth areas with substantial new construction exposure, Austin is among the top five American cities with the biggest growth in the rate of single-family housing stock since 2019 at 6.87 percent.

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The list also included Boise City, Idaho (9.51 percent); Lakeland, Florida (8.30 percent); Raleigh, North Carolina (7.80 percent); Jacksonville, Florida (7.17 percent). At the national level, new construction has grown by a much more …