Home sales and prices in Southern California went up for the second time this month after a period of immobilism; however, the profits, may represent a tough summer ahead those who confront a dwindling supply of homes in most places in Southern California.

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According to the data of CoreLogic, a real estate company, the sales and price gains in April after a couple of years of cooling-off. Based on the report of Los Angeles Times, the market appears better this spring with moderately increased prices to 6.2 percent from April 2014 to $429,000 median across Los Angeles' six county metropolitan area. Sales volume went up at 8.5 percent.

Those gains are outpacing the volume of new listings, based on the data of California Assn. of Realtors. For example, in Los Angeles County, every home on sale would sell in three and half month at market's present pace, down from a three-year high of five months and 2 weeks in February, which was near to what economics experts say a balanced-market between sellers and buyers, according to the report of Financial Reading.

One conventional solution to tighten up supply has been new home construction, but home developers stay cautious. According to Census Bureau data, in Los Angeles and Orange counties, they give permits to build single family homes but drops at 12 percent in the first three months of the year. Permits are up 7 percent in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, they stay far below that set pace during the Inland Empire's home-building heyday hundred years ago.

Los Angeles Time reported, more purchasers are crowding into the business, urged by a developing economy and the prospect that has low interest rates. According to the representative of Mills Realty in Toluca Lake, Simon Mills, well-priced properties get numerous offers fast. That drives prices up, maybe too quick to be sustainable. "It's not leading to a healthy market," Mills added. "There needs to be more supply to feed the demand."

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