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Why are existing home prices rising when sales are still so low?

Housing Wire

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. from the previous year ($375,300). All four U.S.

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Wall Street is Loving Single Family Rentals; No Easy Victories For Mortgage Rates

Appraisal Buzz

In 2010 it was viewed as a quick way to make a buck, but Wall Street’s investment in single-family rental housing soon became a distinct asset class and the pandemic has encouraged its expansion.

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Can first-time homebuyers afford homes today?

Housing Wire

The share is collected monthly in the Realtors Confidence Index and includes buyers who purchased primary homes, vacation homes and investors. Homebuyers placed competitive offers on homes while inventory grew increasingly difficult to find. First-time buyers today need more housing inventory to improve affordability.

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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

Housing Wire

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.” 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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The savagely unhealthy housing market is now a nightmare

Housing Wire

Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened. Inventory skyrocketing back toward historical norms of 2 million to 2.5 Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month

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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

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. Total Inventory had been growing from 2001-2005; total listings data in 2005 was at the higher historical range of 2.5

Inventory 382
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Is it really the worst time ever to buy a house in the U.S.? 

Housing Wire

Another interesting fact about 2021 was that certain people put a lot of weight on housing being held up by investors or iBuyers, reflecting that buying conditions had deteriorated so much in the survey in 2021. history: move-up buyers, move-down buyers with a lot of cash, investors and all-cash buyers. So what is the issue here?

Inventory 370