Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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. You may be told that future moderation indicates “cracks in the housing market, but don’t buy into it.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. million, the equilibrium balance between a buyer and seller marketplace that has been here for four decades. Since 2013 I have said that mortgage rates over 5.875% would be problematic to housing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. in December 2022, its highest level since 2007 and its fastest rise in more than 40 years. We can also expect low housing demand, which favors buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. But after this week’s report, we should have a low-level base formed for housing to stabilize.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. You need a buyer and seller,” Brown said. mortgage insurance market in 2023 to deteriorate. Fitch Ratings also expects the outlook for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

That’s the largest year over year existing home sales decrease since 2007. The impact is greater in expensive areas of the country and in markets that witnessed significant home price gains in recent years.”. Both a pullback in demand and limited supply remain vexing problems for the housing market. year over year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

The affordability hit with higher mortgage rates has impacted new listings data since most sellers are buyers, thus facilitating an all-time low in new listings data. More importantly, it showed that the days on market dropped back to the teenager level, which means we are once again in a savagely unhealthy housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a byproduct of the qualified mortgage rule of 2010, which has been a game-changer not only for the housing market but for the overall U.S. NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of March was 1.11 million active listings per the last report, we have 526,000 per our last Housing Market Tracker article.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. million, currently at 1,110,000 As you can see above, inventory grew at a healthy clip in previous decades and then had a parabolic run higher in 2006 and 2007 when active inventory reached 4 million. Demographics also play a role here.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

As the spring selling season kicks off, many educated sellers know that buyers are experiencing spring fever and are tired of sitting on the fence watching home prices increase. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. Difficult inspections have been on the rise over the last few months. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Homes that reach the market sell quickly, bidding wars are the new normal and the investor share of sales continues to rise.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2021

Not to mention, during the 2007 housing market crash, some had just bought their first homes and unfortunately, lost their homes during the crash. It took a while for the housing market to bounce back. But that’s not the only reason this generation is shopping for their dream home now.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JANUARY 11, 2023

A Look At The Housing Market in 2022. Over the past three years, the real estate market has seen unprecedented milestones. From record-high sale prices to record-low inventory, the market has shown us that just when we think we know what will happen it will show us something different. Sales Volume in December.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

housing market that have 2019 inventory levels or higher are off my savagely unhealthy housing market list; those areas see effective pricing as demand gets weaker. Traditionally speaking, post-2012, inventory growth came in years where demand was weaker from mortgage buyers: 2014 and 2022. The parts of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

“First-generation buyers who do buy homes often take on greater debt to do so or delay homeownership for years, making it difficult for homeowners of color to build wealth at the same pace as white homeowners,” said Jung Choi, a senior research associate with the Housing Finance Policy Center. Presented by: Citibank.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

“The prime-age labor force participation rate fell in the aftermath of the Great Recession and it took a decade to return to the pre-Great Recession average (2001-2007) of 83%,” Kushi said. For housing, March gained 110,000 jobs in construction – a positive sign in an industry struggling with supply constraints.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

Brian Gubernick : No question, the greatest learning opportunity I’ve experienced was the 2007-2008 housing market crash. As a novice real estate investor at the time, the market downturn completely wiped me out. ” HousingWire: What has been your biggest learning opportunity? To become an HW+ member, click here.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 21, 2022

Now, months later, with rates up nearly 100% from the start of the year- January mortgage rates were hovering in the low to mid 3’s and this week reached 6.28%- diminished buyer affordability is causing a big downshift in demand. Rising prices weren’t favorable but with historically low mortgage rates , they were still affordable for buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

But what they do need is for the realtors that have buyers to have the complete and accurate information about their homes. So that those agents will bring their buyer to the builder. I never talk to a buyer. You said before 2007 that you were providing services for homebuilders manually. And we don’t do any of that.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. One of the issues with existing home inventory has been that, for the most part, a traditional seller is usually a buyer of a home. New listings are declining now.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. If the first-time homeowners are not moving because they can’t afford to, it freezes up the entire lower end of the market. million, below the 2019 range of 1.52 million to 1.93

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Houston Properties

JANUARY 13, 2021

Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions. Concerned about a housing market crash? SUMMARY: Coming off a record year, the Houston real estate market started 2021 in a seller’s market. This highlights the importance of Avoiding the 9 Most Common Mistakes Buyers Make.

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Empire Appraisal Group

MAY 13, 2021

housing market is on a hot streak with double-digit annual gains in home prices, bidding wars, and surging buyer demand. That type of soaring housing market is prompting more “bubble” fears in some corners, but economists say the housing market isn’t getting overinflated. “We ‘This Isn’t a Bubble’.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. million — once that happens, I can take the unhealthy label off the housing market.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. I give more details in this interview on why I believe the housing market dynamics shifted on Nov. So, let’s not make that mistake in 2024.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Seriously though, there must be a ceiling to rising rates that have all but extinguished a robust housing market. housing market is experiencing a price “correction,” defined as a 10% price drop from its most recent peak. Our market cooled faster than any other in the nation, according to one report. Dining out.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

Prices have soared in most areas – including a 30% jump in the past year for single-family homes in King County – amid a shortage of inventory and a sharp rise in the number of buyers. Is this the beginning of a housing bubble, 2021-style? “I Couple that with the return of international buyers – absent from the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is the season when buyers can take advantage of homeowners wishing to sell before the holidays and are showing a willingness to budge on price or make other concessions. We are starting to see all of those signs following the release of September housing data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). 1 and Oct.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

A full 82% of sellers and buyers felt “locked in” by their current (low) mortgage rates, according to a survey released by realtor.com. That’s nowhere near the historic drop during the housing crisis when Seattle’s index reading fell 30.1% between May 2007 and January 2012. housing market appears to have hit its nadir.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

However, with active listings now near all-time lows, the builders’ new homes still have more value in the housing market than what we saw in previous decades. Back in 2007 — after existing home sales got as low as we have seen in the recent data as the chart below shows — total active listings were above 4 million.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

This is why we created the housing market tracker articles to keep everyone versed in forward-looking demand and the forward-looking demand was getting better as mortgage rates fell from 8% to below 7%. In 2007, they were 4 million. What I love about this data is that the days on the market are over 30 days.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 15, 2022

When Will the Housing Market Change? So if someone bought a house in early January of 2021 and put 20% down, they would have nearly 40% equity in the home by the end of December. Sellers kept listing, albeit, at a much slower pace, and buyers were buying at the highest rate in over 15 years, absorbing inventory faster than ever.

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