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The supply of homes continues to grow in communities across Pierce County, with all of them well into buyers-market territory. Several are deep into the double digits as measured by months of supply, according to Northwest Multiple Listing Service statistics supplied by Dick Beeson, a Windermere broker and MLS director.
As of mid-March, 16 areas around the county range from 8.1 months of homes listed for sale to more than double that in Gig Harbor, where there were 905 homes for sale, or a 16.7-month supply.
Below you'll find the months of supply as it stood on March 15. Months of supply is calculated by determining how long it would take to sell the number of homes listed for sale at the current pace of sales. Six months of supply is generally considered the point where a market moves from one favoring sellers to one favoring buyers.
| Area | March 15 |
| Gig Harbor | 16.7 |
| Bonney Lake/Lake Tapps | 11.7 |
| Tacoma, North | 14 |
| Tacoma, Southeast | 11.9 |
| Parkland | 11.2 |
| Fife | 10.4 |
| Puyallup | 10.1 |
| Tacoma, Central | 12.5 |
| Browns Point | 9.7 |
| UP/Fircrest | 10.1 |
| Spanaway | 8.1 |
| Graham | 12 |
| Lakewood/DuPont | 9.8 |
| Roy | 13.9 |
| Eatonville | 15.8 | Tacoma, South | 11.1 |
