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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

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Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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The last time houses were this unaffordable was 2006

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in February, which was the first month to see price growth greater than 20%, according to Black Knight ’s monthly mortgage monitor report. housing was the least affordable ever back in July 2006 when it took 34.1% Since the start of 2022, rates have gone up 200 basis points and housing prices have surged 5.9%.

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New homes are selling like it’s 2006 again

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Low mortgage rates and incredible buyer demand won out over pressure from soaring lumber prices in March as single-family new home sales rose 20.7% million seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. This is the fastest sales pace since September 2006.

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Housing starts hit highest pace since 2006

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Single-family housing starts ended 2020 on a high note, rising 12% in December to a 1.338 million unit pace – the highest pace since 2006, according to the Census Bureau. “ December housing rates hit 1,338,000 — up from November’s equally- impressive number of 1,195,000. . That’s up 27.8%

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory finally rises

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Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? Since 2020, the seasonal bottom for housing inventory has arrived several months later than normal, making it more complicated to track housing inventory data. months shows how far we are from 2008 housing economics.

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The housing market is hot, but not in a bubble

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Existing home sales came in at a whopping 6,850,000 , beating estimates with the highest print since 2006. Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. Cash buyers remain at a historically high level of 19%, the same as last year, while sales grew 26.6% The housing market is hot.

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This savagely unhealthy housing market needs higher rates

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million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. However, this year has seen one big game-changer: the 10-year yield finally cracked over 1.94%, which drove mortgage rates over 4%. As we can see below clearly, the market worsened before the job-loss recession happened.