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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Only from 2006-2011 did we see this break due to forced sellers who couldn’t buy homes. This time the hit on demand is much more challenging as we are working from a savagely unhealthy rise in home prices since 2000, and mortgage rates have skyrocketed in the most prominent fashion in modern history. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about what could change the housing market, which was a 10-year yield above 1.94%, which means rates over 4%.

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Rise above the panic, for the housing market’s sake

Housing Wire

Research from Glossy and Modern Retail coined the “Great Mall Overhaul ” and made the call for a pivot, the evolution from transactional to experiential. Now, many would have you believe that leases are in trouble, space is going to sit empty and that shopping malls are a thing of the past, but the model simply needs to change.

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RISING INFLATION, RATES TRIP UP HOUSING MARKET

Will Springer Realtor

The screeching you heard in June was the sound of brakes being applied to the housing market across the U.S. The King County housing market has seen inventory increase by 55% in the past month, while the number of homes going under contract fell 22% from May to the lowest June level since 2011. Not really sure.”.

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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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SEATTLE POPULATION SPURT FUELS HOUSING DEMAND

Will Springer Realtor

They found that the number of households headed by 25- to 34-year-olds grew by 300,000 per year in 2016-2021, up sharply from an average annual growth of 45,000 households between 2011 and 2016, a difference of 260,000 additional households per year. Can the housing market cope with rising demand? city; the figure was 2.94

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

One of the hottest search phrases on Google today is, “When is the housing market going to crash?”. Not “ Will the housing market crash?” We shared in a previous newsletter the many factors driving our buoyant housing market – and there is no end in sight to home appreciation. IOU IN THE FORM OF AN RSU.