Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

The housing priorities outlined by the White House and President Joe Biden last week before and during the State of the Union address are crucial for alleviating a serious burden facing many Americans, and the plan emphasizes actions that can be taken to impact the current housing market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

and Canada in 2006 signed a trade pact , the Lumber Softwood Agreement, that expired in 2015 without a replacement. The post Spike in lumber prices boosts construction costs appeared first on HousingWire. are still being hit with 20% tariffs put in place by President Donald Trump three years ago.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time.

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Empire Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Housing Market Collapse? Housing Market Collapse? The housing market has taken a few hits, such as a doubling of mortgage rates in 2022, but it remains solid even if legitimate news providers suggest doom and gloom. housing market is suffering some cracks, but an outright collapse is nowhere in sight.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Due to the solid demand for homes, housing supply for both new and existing homes are at all-time lows. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. New Home Supply.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

housing market. And now we are facing a tumultuous year of mortgage market normalization. Interest rates are rising, affordability is a challenge, and geopolitical conflicts impact global supply markets. It’s only natural that market players might be skittish over what direction housing will trend.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

In order to account for uncertain prices and availability of materials, homebuilders are holding off on making homes available until they are further along in the construction process. ” Technology for navigating secondary market challenges. . ” Technology for navigating secondary market challenges.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Buyers are facing a housing market that looks to be as competitive as ever,” Handy said in a statement. As mortgage rates rise, all else held equal, house-buying power falls,” First American deputy chief economist Odeta Kushi said in a statement. The market crunch affects borrowers with less money more acutely, economists said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

More than a quarter of single-family homes for sale during the first quarter were new-construction homes — nearly 26%, and March housing starts jumped nearly 20% month over month to the highest level since 2006, per the latest report from Redfin. A healthy housing market is considered roughly six months of supply.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

After three successive months of record highs, the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index measuring builder confidence fell four points to 86 in December. Policymakers should take note to avoid increasing regulatory costs associated with land development and residential construction,” Fowke said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2021

Despite consistent forecasts of a market with rising rates, the 30-year fixed rate mirrored more closely numbers borrowers saw back in February. For the third consecutive week, mortgage rates managed to remain under 3%, dropping three basis points last week to an average of 2.96%, according to Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A lot of the housing data was lagging the rate move, so it wasn’t apparent that higher rates impacted the data yet. Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. However, the housing market changed once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

census divisions rose 7% in September from a year ago, the greatest year-over-year gain since 2014, and nearly 23% higher than its last peak in 2006. Home prices are normally sticky, meaning that they often take a while to respond to market shifts,” said Matthew Speakman, economist at Zillow.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After the GDP report came out, the bond market rallied, sending yields lower, which some people were confused about. Let’s just say, things have been wild with the bond market and mortgage rates all year! As we can see below, housing is 42.2% The last time I had all six red flags raised was in late 2006.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

The subsequent housing market crash sharply reduced that number to an average of about 50,000 originations per year from the late 2010s through 2020. Researchers estimated that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) incurred a net loss of approximately $10.4 billion from the program.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

Since 2022 — as the labor market has been getting hotter with massive job gains and high job openings — the year-over-year wage growth data has been falling. Let this sink in; while the labor market was booming in 2022 and 2023, the fear of a wage spiral never materialized. I wrote recently about the 1970s inflation and mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

higher than the same time last year, according to the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. With October’s data in, new home sales have had the strongest three-month stretch since mid-2006, with each month falling just short of 1 million. below September’s 1,002,000 revised rate but still a massive 41.5%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

However, considering Wednesday’s builder confidence index and mortgage rates over 6%, it’s time to raise the fifth recession red flag, since the builders will have a tough time growing housing starts with rates this high. . From NAHB : From Census: Housing Permits Privately?owned From Census: Housing Completions Privately?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

The existing home sales market is a face on a milk carton, and homebuilders are salivating at the opportunity to meet strong consumer demand. Census Bureau speaks to the growing strength of the new home market, which stands in stark contrast to the moribund re-sale market. So why aren’t they? New data from the U.S. million, 21.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

from its former high in July 2006. These factors appear likely to remain in place in the near term, and an incrementally improving economy should encourage more buyers to enter the market.”. Larger homes have become more popular as more homeowners are working from home, becoming a main driver for construction. respectively.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The single-family rental (SFR) sector and its close cousin, the fix-and-flip market , are now essentially treading water in an environment of high interest rates , approaching 8%; high home prices; and a dearth of home-purchase inventory. That’s particularly true for mom-and-pop investors across both market segments.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. This means that the doors, windows, electrical all are done by contractors after the walls have been constructed.”. Khater wrote.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

housing market went into recession in June of this year, which I talked about a few months ago on CNBC. New and existing home sales are falling, along with housing permits and starts, as we have too many new homes for the builders to issue new permits. The Fed pivots early when the labor market starts to get bad.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

So what does this mean for the labor market and the larger economy? . The job market is still pushing along fine as the need for labor continues in America. Let’s take a look at the American labor market. Also, we must be mindful that multifamily construction has been good this year, with rental demand still solid.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

HousingWire: What are the current challenges when it comes to affordable housing? Bill Dallas: As construction and labor costs have climbed, so, too, have home prices. as of 2020 — the highest level since 2006, according to the State of the Nation’s Housing 2021 report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

The internals of the labor market are very healthy; job openings are over 11.5 Remember, the trend has been your friend since 2009: the Baby Boomers can’t work forever, and no country has a Dorian Gray labor market. Job openings in construction and manufacturing are big in America today.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Desktop appraisals arrived in March of 2020, allowing the housing market to keep humming while many stayed indoors to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Allowing appraisals without a walk-through was one of several flexibilities the Federal Housing Finance Agency allowed in light of the pandemic.

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Empire Appraisal Group

APRIL 22, 2021

Source: Housing Demand Likely to Stay High for Years to Come | Florida Realtors. While higher housing costs and mortgage rates will chip away at buyer demand, the sheer volume of current buyers makes the next buyers’ market appear far away. These financial concerns have been compounded by housing market dynamics.

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Clear Capital

AUGUST 30, 2021

The August 2021 Home Data Index (HDI ) Market Report shows national quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) home price growth is at 6.4 In that case, we encourage the consideration of the additional year-over-year comparison based upon price-per-square-foot, which may be more in line with market dynamics in this situation. months worth of supply.

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Empire Appraisal Group

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Today’s market isn’t like the boom-bust cycle leading up to the Great Recession: Tough loan standards are the norm, plus many factors have kept housing supply low. Exuberant buying – with multiple offers and bidding wars – has become common across the country, reminiscent of the fevered market before the 2008 housing crash.

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Town & Country Residential Appraisals

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Above: 1970-2019 National median home price % increase VS. home construction % increase. There is lots of talk of national home prices increasing since 2008 and having stalled in 2018-2019 and what the possible causes could be, but what does that have to do with our local market. See the green and red lines above).

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If it had a market value of $345k, it would have listed at $345k!”. Other questions are not as relevant, such as fees, as the appraisal market in many areas is not as strong as in May when the survey was done. The Tectonic House in Venice Beach, CA – $5.8M. Housing Market Cools. I hate leaving the Island!

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 6, 2022

To learn more about Shauna, click here: Shauna Fanning Kelly Dimbat has lived in Billerica since 2006 and has been a top producing REALTOR® in Billerica and the surrounding communities for several years. Kelly joined forces with Lamacchia Realty in January 2019, after having owned James Marcora Realty in Billerica, MA since 2006.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

Habitual practice of “comparing comps” over “measuring markets” will prevail (in the absence of change in the other “frictions”). NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on declining mortgage loans, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. To read more, click here.

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Patch of Land

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Investors Enjoy a Resurging Market. House flipping declined significantly after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. But thanks to low interest rates and increasing home prices in the current market, there is a resurgence in home flipping. remains stubbornly low nearly a decade after the housing collapse. Last year, 5.7

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A A growing diversified base of technology companies continue to proclaim the Eastside market as one of the best living and job opportunities in the country,” noted local commercial property firm Broderick Group in a report issued last month. “A million sq.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 17, 2022

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on real estate market, USPAP and contracts, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. My Comments on Market Changes. Fannie and Freddie have long said that they want appraisers to tell them about their markets. When will it affect your market?

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