There have also been more and more new homes selling over the past five years.

The graph at the top, though, tells a third story -- an increasing portion of home sales are new home sales. 

Between 2017 and 2020 new home sales comprised 12% - 14% of all home sales.

Then, in 2021, that jumped up to 19% new home sales.  Thus, last year, approximately one in every five homes sold was a new home.

This would seem to be good news, generally, as there is an ever increasing number of people who want to buy homes and make Harrisonburg their home -- so we'll need to see more new homes to help provide that housing.