Housing Wire
APRIL 30, 2023
The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listing rose 8,260 week to week, down a bit from last week’s gain, but I’m not complaining — anything on the plus side is positive.
Housing Wire
MAY 7, 2023
Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. However, one thing is for sure, housing is not going to crash due to large-scale panic-selling — a scare tactic of late 2021 that didn’t work then or now.
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Housing Wire
DECEMBER 7, 2022
As you can see from the chart above, the last several years have not had the FOMO (fear of missing out) housing credit boom we saw from 2002-2005. What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%
Housing Wire
MARCH 12, 2023
Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. Weekly inventory fell by 6201 , and new listing data is down noticeably from last year, which was different than last week. Inventory grew during the housing bubble years because housing credit was much looser back then, and people could move more freely.
Housing Wire
MAY 8, 2024
You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008. On top of more legitimate buyers, we fixed the credit markets, meaning housing credit looks fantastic. Demographics also play a role here.
Housing Wire
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
But I need to explain why this level has more in common with 2014 housing data than the credit stress markets of 2005-2008, and why you should care. Understanding this data line and what it is trying to tell you will be more valuable than erroneously thinking the market is crashing and we’ll see a wave of foreclosures.
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 21, 2022
We have had two historic events that created a waterfall dive in demand recently; we now have precise data showing new listing data declining with those events, which shows how important that data line is to housing demand. This is the biggest story in housing. . economic history. . As we can see below, the U.S.
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