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Opinion: The end of seller speculation in US housing market

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A few months ago, the United States housing market failed Econ 101. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. Table 1, below, reports the 10 hottest U.S. Bellingham, WA 51.7% -8.3%

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

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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. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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How housing credit is shaping housing inventory

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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. Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. So you can see why we have so few stressed sellers.

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The power of data with Mike Simonsen

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Mike Simonsen, president of Altos Research , will share his data-focused insights on the housing market at Gathering of Eagles 2023. Simonsen founded Altos Research in 2006. The information in an Altos Market Report ranges from median home price to days on the market and the percent of price decreases.

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Side’s Hilary Saunders discusses the evolution of brokerage models

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2006 is when Zillow came out with their Zestimates and with that, they started to very slowly provide to the consumer a more transparent way of understanding the market, and how to see not just the value of their home, but also what their neighborhood was doing and how prices were going up and down,” Saunders said.

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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

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housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. The one period where this didn’t happen was from 2006-2011, when credit forced Americans to sell, to rent or to be homeless. The days on market were too low. And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5

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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

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.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. Since the credit standards have improved post-2010, we shouldn’t see distressed sellers until a job loss recession happens, even if sales fall noticeably.

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