Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Single-family housing starts continued their seven-month climb in November, coming in at the highest level since 2007, according to the Census Bureau. Housing starts rose 1.2% Single-family housing starts rose 0.4% Single-family housing starts rose 0.4% in November compared to October and are up 12.8% The reason?

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Also, I believed the risk to the housing market was if home prices grew more than 23% over the five years of 2020-2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. We are not taking the unhealthy housing market theme off this marketplace.

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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

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Last week was relatively calm for the housing market after the fiasco of the banking crisis. Housing demand grew and inventory levels fell again while mortgage rates rose. The banking crisis has stressed the mortgage backed securities market , pushing rates higher than usual. Mortgage rates rose to 6.57%.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

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. Nothing good is happening in housing when days on market are so low. million The peak in 2007 was a bit over 4 million Currently we’re at 1.08

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. The housing market is hot. You may be told that future moderation indicates “cracks in the housing market, but don’t buy into it. Second, housing tenure is currently at 10 years, double what it was from 1985 to 2007.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 17, 2021

During the 2007-10 mortgage default meltdown, appraisals were a target of complaints and allegations by lenders, the GSEs, some state appraisal boards, and a few unscrupulous entrepreneurs. Between 2002-2005 in many markets, the real estate market was scorching, much like it is today.

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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.”. “The Both a pullback in demand and limited supply remain vexing problems for the housing market.

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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. “A small offset or decline in home values, which we are starting to see, (…) can help that consumer who’s in the market for the first time,” Brown said.

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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. million active listings per the last report, we have 526,000 per our last Housing Market Tracker article. million, and in 2007, it peaked at 4 million. million in March.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

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. On top of more legitimate buyers, we fixed the credit markets, meaning housing credit looks fantastic.

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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 3, 2024

As a result, sellers who are winning in this market spent time making sure their homes are in show-ready condition. These buyers understand that more inventory is coming to the market and that they will have options. After the last crash, builders scaled back significantly and never fully recovered to pre-2007 levels.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2024

in 2021, hitting the worst level since 2007. “In Whether the overall market has soared or seen just modest gains in recent years, investors have missed out on the action.” ATTOM notes that margins for home flippers had already been declining during earlier years when the broader housing market was booming.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As we can see in the chart below, even with the biggest home sales crash in history for one year, inventory data has yet to return to the peaks we saw in 2007. But even with the biggest home sales crash ever, prices are still at all-time highs. Getting back to the four-decade average between 2-2.5 million has been a struggle.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Rates have gone up, but have they sucked all the demand out of the market? Also, someone asked if the stock market is connected to the housing market, so l made a cool graph. Let’s talk about that today by looking at a few stats.

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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! Confused by this? I hear you; let’s dive deeper into today’s report.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

That’s why we’ve invited vice president of regional production at loanDepot Brian Covey to speak on a panel titled Building a Personal Brand at HousingWire’s virtual Engage Marketing event on June 17. His mortgage career was affected by the 2007 market crash just as he was raising toddlers with his wife Nicole. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2021

The housing market is no stranger to supply constraints. But according to Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae , it’s not going to be just one of these factors that brings the market back to some semblance of normalcy. It’s going to take all of them. HousingWire Magazine delivered to your home or office.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

The Dallas Fed on Thursday published an article titled: Real-Time Market Monitoring Finds Signs Of a Brewing U.S. Housing Bubble. The online reaction was immediate — housing must be about to crash. I’m going to take their talking points and explain in detail why this isn’t the housing bubble of 2002-2005. “

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Economists and housing experts say mortgage lending standards will likely loosen in 2021, despite the increased risk of delinquencies ahead. housing market. Such a scenario illustrates the growing disparities in the U.S.

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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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Amid the uncertain current environment, here are six key indicators we should look to for an accurate assessment of market conditions: Federal funds rate : While the current fed funds rate of 3.25% seems high, it also stood at more than 2% from October 2018 to September 2019.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

CEDAR CREEK, Texas — At HousingWire Annual on Tuesday, HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami demystified “the madness” unfolding in the bonds market in front of an audience of more than 300 real estate and mortgage professionals. for the first time since 2007. He noted the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield edged 4.8%

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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. Annual house price growth hit a record high in 2021, over 17%, and growth remains in the double digits thus far in 2022.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 1, 2022

That was up from 69% of counties that were historically less affordable in the second quarter of 2021, to the highest point since 2007, just before the housing market crashed during the Great Recession of.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 18, 2021

Economists dive into April housing market indicators and explain how today’s turbulent mortgage environment differs from that leading up to the 2007-2008 crash. The post Home Prices Stoke ‘Housing Bubble’ Fears—are They Founded? The post Home Prices Stoke ‘Housing Bubble’ Fears—are They Founded?

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

The Hill case is not a common occurrence in the world of housing finance, but it is far from rare. As the housing market enters a purchase-market cycle sparked by rising mortgage rates that have killed off a long-running refinance boom, we can expect to see mortgage-fraud schemes proliferate, industry experts say.

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In addition, jobless claims data had another solid print, showing that the labor market hasn’t broken yet, which led to more selling of the 10-year yield. On housing inventory , new listings data saw a small decline last week, but active listings grew at a healthy clip. Back then, we ran at 33% ; in 2018 and 2019 , it was 36%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Barack Obama uttered those words on the footsteps of the Illinois state capitol in 2007 – a speech where the former Illinois state senator declared his candidacy for president. In that NAR study, the Chicago-headquartered trade group analyzed home sale data in 183 markets. median home price of $207,000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. This week’s trading in the bond market will be exciting with the upcoming inflation data.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

economic performance and persistent inflation, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised the federal funds rate by another 75 basis points, to 3.75%-4%, launching it to the highest level since December 2007. The decision, expected by most Fed observers and the financial markets, is intended to further slow down the housing market.

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