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Mortgage market affordability and inventory challenges

Housing Wire

In Portland, Oregon, for example, one loan officer noted that new listings doubled in the second half of May from 800 to 1,900 new listings. In Seattle, Dan Keller reported 47% of all listings had price reductions. Slow construction and restrictive zoning laws.

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High Financing Hurdles Lead to Low Housing Activity in Seattle/King County

Will Springer Realtor

fewer new listings, the rate of sales rose 1.7% Two data points stood out from the latest report by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service: The aforementioned new listings for all homes in the county – 2684 – is at a low not seen for an August since records were shared with brokers (like me) dating back to the mid-1990s.

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

months of the supply is active listings, 68K 5 months of the supply is still under construction, 280K 1.6 The majority of inventory comes from the existing home sales market and if you compare it to 2008, back then we didn’t even have 200,000 homes available for sale and currently we are at 68,000. When supply is 4.3

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2024 housing market and rate forecast

Housing Wire

If I am wrong and mortgage rates go lower for longer and we don’t get more new listings in 2024, then home prices can grow faster in 2024 because we will have the same issue as before: too many people chasing too few homes. We haven’t had new listings data break over 90,000 in the peak seasons of 2021, 2022 or 2023.

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King County Housing Market Stumbles to 2022 Finish Line

Will Springer Realtor

The number of new listings for all home types – single-family, townhomes and condos combined – in King (887) fell 47% from November and declined 36% from December 2021. The number of Pendings (1206) has fallen for five consecutive months and is the lowest of any month since December 2008 (1167). Economists across the U.S.

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The homebuilders got lucky this time

Housing Wire

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. Here’s the breakout: 71,000 new homes have been completed: 1.4

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

However, weeks after that call, the new listing data started to decline noticeably, which makes that call much harder to happen in 2023. However, I acknowledge that the housing dynamics have changed a lot since that forecast in June as new listing data declined. million in 2023. million for 2023. Housing recession.