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Logan Mohtashami unpacks the slow train wreck that’s been happening in housing inventory

Housing Wire

I always try to focus people on the total inventory data until we get inventory back into a range of 1.52-1.93 HousingWire: To add to that, since housing is in an inventory shortage, the market has changed, so the good news is inventory is growing. Months are homes under construction 0.8 Then this happened.

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Homes in Boise, Idaho are “flying off the market”

Housing Wire

months worth of housing inventory, which is the lowest ever, the report from Keller Williams said. Notably, in 2011, existing home prices in Ada County were at $160,113. New construction continues to take more and more of our market,” Dopp said. Now, in 2020, median existing home prices are at $410, 414.

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The 2021 housing market recap by Logan Mohtashami

Housing Wire

Housing permits are growing and this is a good thing for the economy and construction jobs. While I have never been a housing construction boom guy because mature economies typically don’t have a construction boom, the fact that permits are keeping their uptrend is a big positive for the United States of America.

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Current housing inventory insufficient for aging needs, report says

Housing Wire

Despite a documented preference that older Americans have to age in place, the current housing inventory is inadequate to support the needs of an aging population. According to 2011 data from Harvard University ’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS), less than 4% of U.S. There are changes the housing industry can make.

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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? As you can see below, the inventory keeps falling from 2014 levels, and even with the weakness in demand this year, we are nowhere close to 2013 levels, let alone 2018 levels. What is going on here?

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. There are no signs of a real estate crisis, particularly in the Puget Sound region, where prices keep rising – up about 20% the past year and 68% in Seattle alone since 2016, by one measure – amid a dearth of inventory and surge of buyers. That’s fair.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. If supply goes over 6.5

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