LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – How low will it go?<\/p>\n
The inventory of homes-for-sale in a large swath of the 69 News viewing area is hovering near a historic low, according to the\u00a0Greater Lehigh Valley REALTORS (GLVR).<\/p>\n
On Thursday the group released its latest batch of data on the real estate market in Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not much has changed since last month. Or the month before that. And on and on. Inventory is down. Prices are up.<\/p>\n
\u201cDecember\u2019s numbers reinforce what REALTORS across the Greater Lehigh Valley continue to experience on the ground: buyer demand remains steady, but supply is still extremely limited,\u201d said GLVR CEO Justin Porembo, in a news release.<\/p>\n
Inventory declined 9.3 percent from December of 2024 to December of 2025, with 605 units available across Lehigh and Northampton counties.<\/p>\n
Also, the median sales price increased 2.3 percent to $337,500, up from $329,950, GLVR said. The statistic known as months supply of inventory- a measure of supply and demand- shows a drop of 8.3 percent to 1.1 months.\u00a0Five to six months is typically associated with a healthy inventory.<\/p>\n
In Carbon County, the median sales price rose to $286,000, GLVR reported. New listings fell by one to 43. Inventory fell to 134 units, resulting in a months supply of inventory of 2.3 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
GLVR is finding a silver lining in\u00a0moderating price growth and improving pending sales, which, the agency said, show momentum heading into 2026.<\/p>\n
Another bright spot for buyers:\u00a0national trends suggest modest relief from mortgage rate volatility, GLVR said.<\/p>\n
This week, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 6.06%, according to Freddie Mac. That’s the lowest average since September of 2022.<\/p>\n
At this time last year, the average 30-year fixed rate was 7.04%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – How low will it go? The inventory of homes-for-sale in a large swath of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,5523,14908,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-88009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-carbon-county","12":"tag-greater-lehigh-valley","13":"tag-lehigh-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}