Orange County missing 1-in-10 home sellers

Orange County house hunters have 10 percent fewer options as the homebuying season begins.
ReportsOnHousing tracks homebuying patterns found in real estate broker networks: supply (active listings); demand (new escrows in past 30 days); and “market time” (a measure of selling speed of days it takes a typical listing to enter escrow).
The “spring” home shopping season quasi-starts right after the Super Bowl. As of Feb. 8, ReportsOnHousing found 3,981 listings in Orange Cou