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The housing market recession continues, despite starts data

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real estate investors and affordable homes. The June housing starts data beat estimates with positive revisions, however, this doesn’t change the housing market recession call that I made last month. This is a plus for rental supply, however, single-family construction is about to cool down in response to higher rates.

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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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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

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As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. The housing sector — especially real estate and mortgage — has seen significant layoffs , while the general economy will create more than 4 million jobs in 2022. Production falls.

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New home sales make it clear: Housing is in a recession

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This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. Since the summer of 2020, I have genuinely believed the housing market could change once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%. “I don’t expect a boom in housing construction.

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Homebuilders are done until mortgage rates fall

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Tuesday’s housing starts report clearly shows that homebuilders are going to be done with single-family construction until mortgage rates fall. If it wasn’t for solid rental demand boosting multifamily construction this year — 18% year to date —this data line would have looked much worse. Why do I call it a housing recession?

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Housing completion data is now savagely unhealthy

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Housing construction in the U.S. months of homes they have under construction or have not even started yet. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the savagely unhealthy housing market. Now that mortgage rates have spiked up so much, the housing construction growth we have seen in single-family construction is done.

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

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The housing market shifted in March of this year. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time. That’s not the case now because we have’t had a credit boom post-2010 as we did from 2002 to 2005. housing market. What is going on here?

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