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Buyers and sellers agree: it’s a good time to enter the housing market

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points, but has steadily recovered over 60% of its COVID-19 pandemic loss when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. While the state of the market shines brightly for prospective buyers and sellers, the economy overall is showing some slight hesitation. But that does still leave an estimated 11.1

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

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What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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Existing home sales lay the path for the 2024 housing market

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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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As home prices increase, sellers have the upper hand

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points, but has recovered more than half of its early pandemic-period decline when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. August’s HPSI survey revealed both a confident seller’s and buyer’s market, however, Fannie Mae reported September buyers showing more hesitancy. Presented by: NAMB.

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Where home seller profit margins are shrinking

Housing Wire

Despite this drop, investment returns for home sellers is still up from 48.8% ATTOM says these factors are raising homeownership costs for buyers, which it says “cuts into resources available for down payments on purchases” and impacts overall household budgets. Metro results for home sellers. This is up from 6.7%

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Opinion: Here’s the latest data on what Realtors are witnessing in the housing market

Housing Wire

However, there are a number of attention-grabbing headlines, which unfortunately only compare today’s housing market to the very recent history of the last two years. It is always good to know where we are with the real estate market, but it is essential to keep all data in historical perspective. . Historically 2.5

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