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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

Housing Wire

On Friday NAR reported that total housing inventory levels broke under 1 million in December, dropping to 970,00 units for a population of 330 million people. million in January down to about 4 million in December, We now have total inventory levels near all-time lows again. In one of the most historical years in the U.S.

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Home sales are going to nosedive in 2023, Fannie Mae says

Housing Wire

Given the ongoing tension between potential homebuyers and home-sellers at the moment, we believe the pace of sales is likely to slow even further, too,” he added. annualized in the third quarter of 2022 due to strong net export and inventory investment activity, before contracting 0.7% contraction in real GDP in 2023.

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US home prices hit record level (again)

Housing Wire

below its 2006 peak. For-sale inventory levels charted their fourth consecutive monthly increase in August, and sellers appear to be taking a less aggressive approach when putting their homes on the market. Home prices in 19 of our 20 cities now stand at all-time highs, with the sole outlier (Chicago) only 0.3%

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Are new home sales flagging a recession?

Housing Wire

I know some people don’t agree with me on this, but the price gains in both the existing home and new home sales sector show that homebuilders and sellers had too much pricing power and needed to be checked. My biggest thing is getting total inventory back to 2018-2019 levels, which can range from 1.52-1.93 What do we have now?

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The nation’s housing market is on a correction course

Housing Wire

Housing demand weakened noticeably as growing concerns about affordability contributed to non-seasonal declines in sales, resulting in a slight increase in inventory and more moderate price appreciation,” states the Federal Reserve’s most recently released Beige Book report — based on data and reports current as of mid-July.

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Massachusetts 2023 Year in Review

Lamacchia Realty

It kept inventory down, which propped up prices, but sales are down nearly 22%, and buyers are hungry. A year later, still no crash, which had more to do with the decrease in inventory than the decrease in sales. The number of homes placed under contract (pending), decreased by 17.7% A lot of it had to do with anemic inventory.

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New Hampshire 2023 Year in Review

Lamacchia Realty

This scarcity in inventory exerted upward pressure on prices, although it coincided with a 19% decline in sales. Despite this decline, motivated buyers were out there trying to secure a home while also trying to navigate lower affordability and low inventory. Average prices for closed sales increased by 7.2% Sales Decline by 18.9%