{"id":1548,"slug":"absorption-months-inventory-formula-ontario","title":"Months of inventory (absorption) = active listings ÷ monthly sales; 0-4 seller / 4-6 balanced / 6+ buyer (Ontario practitioner framing)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","candid-team"],"topics":["real-estate-mls","ontario-real-estate-market"],"reference_body":"**Claim.** Months of inventory = active listings ÷ monthly sales. Ontario practitioner heuristics: 0-4 months = seller's market, 4-6 = balanced, 6+ = buyer's market. Most agents \"regurgitate what they've heard on the news\" rather than run sub-market absorption.\n\n**Quote.**\n> \"Regurgitate what they've heard on the news.\"\n\n**Source.** thevillageguru.com (Ontario practitioner); Bramlett practitioner guide (US but transferable), accessed 2026-06-21.\n\n**Confidence.** Industry-consensus for the formula and heuristic bands; single-source for the \"regurgitate the news\" framing.\n\n**Caveats.** Heuristic thresholds (0-4 / 4-6 / 6+) are convention, not statistical. Sub-market absorption is the affirmative claim — most data sources publish only board-level.\n\n**Implication / use.** The single cleanest example of \"the data is already there; the use is the gap.\" Combine with [[trreb-market-watch-monthly-months-inventory]].","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"research-brief-mls-data-inside-the-box-ontario-june-2026","title":"Research notes (capture-layer): inside the MLS box — what an Ontario member agent's account exposes, what goes unused, and what they're licensed to do with it (June 2026)","kind":"research-notes","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-mls-data-inside-the-box-ontario-june-2026","title":"Research notes (capture-layer): inside the MLS box — what an Ontario member agent's account exposes, what goes unused, and what they're licensed to do with it (June 2026)","kind":"research-notes","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"trreb-market-watch-monthly-months-inventory","title":"TRREB monthly Market Watch — includes \"Month's Inventory\" (absorption)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T10:47:49.110Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T10:47:49.110Z"}