The number of vacant single-family homes for sale has dropped 25% since the start of 2012. But the situation is far worse at the cheaper end of the market, where the inventory of homes priced under $250,000 has halved over the same period. That will constrain first-time buyers, and suggests that the latest rise in the homeownership rate among under-35s is not the start of an upward trend.
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