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Logan Mohtashami on why this is a savagely unhealthy housing market

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HousingWire: How will rising rates affect new home construction? Logan Mohtashami: Rising rates make housing less affordable, so for a first-time home buyer that doesn’t have the benefit of selling their home with that nested equity, it makes it harder for them. What does this mean for first-time homebuyers?

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Opinion: why we all have a stake in closing the homeownership gap

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In addition, some white neighborhoods had zoning laws that legally banned non-white buyers from owning homes in those neighborhoods. million new minority homeowners when the president launched the Blueprint for the American Dream in 2002. This means that the most likely buyer for many of these new retirees will be a minority family.

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How will rising rates affect new home construction?

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Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S.

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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

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That’s not the case now because we have’t had a credit boom post-2010 as we did from 2002 to 2005. However, the spike in inventory that we saw from 2006 to 2011 can be attributed to the massive credit bubble we had from 2002 to 2005. We have more housing starts under construction now than in recent history!

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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

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The housing market of 2002-2005 had four years of sales growth facilitated by credit. However, what isn’t identical is that we have not had a massive sales boom like we saw from 2002-2005. This is significantly different than the period from 2002-2005 when credit expansion was booming. Home sales. Housing credit.

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Low housing inventory a win for homebuilders

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This business model means that the builders are very mindful of the demand for their product and keep an eye out on their main competition, the existing home market, where supply is cheaper for a buyer. They can cut prices, pay down mortgage rates for their buyers, and do what they need to to make it work for them to move their products.

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New home sales are at risk with rising mortgage rates ?

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It’s also driven more by mortgage buyers who tend to be older and make more money than the new-home buyers. Compared to the existing home sales marketplace, it doesn’t have a high cash buyer or investor buyer profile. months and above, the builders will pull back on construction. percent (±11.9 percent (±13.7

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