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. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

Housing inventory increased by 1,339 homes nationwide. The weekly inventory data, which had fallen faster than I had anticipated the last few weeks, has now seen a slight uptick. As you can see below, the waterfall dive in existing home sales has taken us toward the level of 2007-2008 monthly home sales. million.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a seller’s market. Real estate professionals throughout the state attribute the resilience of the state’s housing market to its perpetually low inventory problem. Like the Chicago suburbs, Peoria’s desirability has put a strain on the city’s already tight housing inventory. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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.” ” 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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Few things affect the real estate market more than the rise and fall of interest rates , which has a ripple effect that directly influences everything from buyer behavior to market trends. How interest rates impact your clients Let’s look at how interest rates can impact buyers, sellers or homeowners looking to refinance.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, a time of turbulence in the real estate market. Since October of 2022, the share of buyers who are purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one quarter of the market. In March of 2022, sellers received an average of 5.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The premise of a mortgage rate lockdown is simple: so many American households have such low mortgage rates that some will never move once rates rise, which then locks up housing inventory. Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

His recent article, “Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?” takes a deep dive into what the heck is going on with purchase applications, housing demand and inventory levels. This article, for example, asks why, if purchase applications are down to 2009 levels, are inventory levels still so freaking low?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

You know, the one that says we have too much inventory and millions of vacant homes in the U.S.? The truth is, it’s not 2008 all over again. I understand the lure of the housing 2008 story. This is where understanding how credit channels impact housing inventory would have helped.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Meanwhile, the available inventory of unsold homes is growing. This week, inventory grew faster than it did last year at this time. This week was the biggest week of inventory increase all year, with inventory growing by over 9,000 single-family homes. Last year, inventory climbed dramatically for months.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The housing market has not seen such a significant two-month drop in prices since shortly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in winter of 2008, Black Knight said on Monday. “Historically low inventory – along with record low interest rates – was one of the key drivers behind U.S. months of for-sale inventory to 3.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2021

Record low inventory and strong buyer demand once again pushed up the cost of homes in the U.S., “With buyer demand continuing to outpace the previous year’s levels amid historically lowest inventory of for-sale homes, the pressure on home prices is going to fuel home price growth in the first half of 2021,” Happ said. .

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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. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. Case in point, purchase application data is already below 2008 levels today. million listings.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

And there’s another thing that separates the housing market from other markets — the buyer is often also the seller. In most markets, the seller, or supplier, makes their decision about adding supply to the market independent of the buyer, or source of demand, and their decision to buy. Homer Simpson or Spock?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From NAR : First-time buyers were responsible for 31% of sales in November; Individual investors purchased 18% of homes; All-cash sales accounted for 27% of transactions; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 25 days. The marketplace data told us we had no stressed sellers in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

It happened in 2008 and then didn’t happen again until 2023. Remember, with median sales prices and inventory, it’s very seasonal. However, remember, the dive in inventory is normal at this time of the year. This is a positive for housing in 2024 as most sellers are buyers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Once total inventory levels reach 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market. As reported in the latest NAR Existing-Home Sales , inventory still remains in tight supply, which means homes are still moving at a fast past despite the recent rise in rates and home prices.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Even today, the MBA purchase application index is below 2008 levels. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. The reality is that home sellers and builders had too much pricing power.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

Last week’s listings rate remained super low and available inventory of homes for sale fell again by almost 1% to 410,000, according to Altos Research. HousingWire: How have the current mortgage rate and inventory challenges impacted the direction of Corcoran’s marketing strategies?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They don’t ever have to have the conversation about how low their total payment is in the new home they’re buying, unlike some of their buyers (which explains higher cancellation rates). Homebuilders’ for-sale inventory and months’ supply The seasonally-adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of January was 439,000.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Others have expressed concerns that we are headed for a housing crash, like in 2008. Let’s talk about the difference between today’s market and the one during the years leading up to the bursting of the housing bubble in the Great Recession of 2008. THE RISE IN HOME PRICES IN THE YEARS LEADING TO 2008.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This is a lot different than 2008 where you needed a credit score and a heartbeat to get a mortgage. Coming off of the pandemic banner years, thinning origination volume, low inventory and soaring home prices made business much harder to come by for LOs in 2023. The inventory puts a cap on how much business we can do.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There is one simple reason for this: it’s not 2008. However, the glaring difference today versus the recession of 2008, is that in 2007 the builders had to deal with over 4 million active listings as competition for their pricey new homes. Buyers have fewer choices than normal in the past eight years — but in reality, since 1982.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

They’re effective sellers and don’t want to create a backlog of completed units for sale because that would ruin their business model. The builders have managed their backlog nicely to ensure this data line doesn’t explode higher on them like we saw in 2008. Now on to the report. This represents a supply of 6.7

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MAY 18, 2023

I was talking to a real estate agent recently who said that her sellers are scared about a significant downturn in the market and missing out on the higher values. The agent went on to mention that many people she knows would like to sell their home but are afraid of not finding another one because inventory levels are so low.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Even in the worst housing bubble crash of our lifetime in 2008, the number of new homes for sale was under 200,000. For sale inventory and months’ supply: The seasonally-adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of October was 439,000. Because the builders are efficient sellers. Be the detective, not the troll, folks.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Even as mortgage rates rose, and affordability was pushed out of reach for many potential homebuyers, there are still sufficient buyers who can afford these prices and these rates. The number of buyers has been surprising. Inventory As a result, the seasonal inventory build is slow and on a normal cycle.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2008, 2009, it was triage. The good news is that there is plenty of demand for vacant properties, from both nonprofit and for-profit buyers. That competition helped lift average price execution (winning bid as percentage of seller reserve) for vacant REOs to 104.8% Seeking new inventory sources.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The builders don’t like to see supply of existing homes growing for fear that their buyers might cancel on them. The growth of supply means demand is getting weaker, which will require builders to give more incentives to buyers. This represents a supply of 9.0 months at the current sales rate. months and above. But since Oct.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

For 2020-2024, I set some critical parameters for sales and price growth, knowing that this marketplace will be different from the market we had from 2008 to 2019. Second, because of the downtrend in inventory since 2014 and the demand pick-up we will see in the years 2020-2024, we had a risk of home prices accelerating too much.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, persistently high mortgage rates pose a significant affordability challenge to buyers and sellers (not to mention the workers of a trillion dollar-plus industry). In July, 26% of existing homes sold to cash buyers while 7% of new homes sold to cash buyers. said Sturtevant.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2021

million , so every single existing home sales print in 2021 has been higher than what we closed in 2020 — which was higher than any single year from 2008 to 2019. I understand that grifters have to keep the grift going, but not even the Joker would say that the housing market lives off investors and not mortgage buyers. million and 6.2

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Listing Spark

JUNE 21, 2022

The real estate industry has been experiencing some shifting trends lately, and when compared to the last crash, there are plenty of factors that make this time different from 2008. Back then, terrible lending regulations, a surplus of inventory, and little to no equity for homeowners was a recipe for disaster. in April and 8% in May.

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Eppraisal

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Now that the real estate market is transitioning with softening sales and rising interest rates, it is important to be in the know as a home buyer. As a buyer in a transitioning market, you have more to prepare for. Home values are not going down anytime soon however inventory of homes available for sale is increasing.

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McKissock

AUGUST 14, 2022

The housing market has cooled since the intensity of the post-pandemic real estate rush, but the seller’s market we experienced has left us with plenty of discussion about what the nation’s housing inventory looks like. Housing Inventory So Low? In 2008, many people lost their homes when the housing bubble burst.

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