Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

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. What levels should we be hoping for? Then this happened. Ghost Supply 2.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The housing market continues to cool amid high mortgage rates , affordability challenges and still-low inventory. Housing inventory remains tight heading into fall Meanwhile, total housing inventory at the end of August was 1.1 Elevated mortgage rates add to affordability pain As of Aug. compared to a year ago. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! “The principal factor was the rapid increase in mortgage rates, which hurt housing affordability and reduced incentives for homeowners to list their homes. Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Donny Kirby, former vice president of national direct-to-consumer sales at Wyndham Capital Mortgage , spent more than 12 years at Charlotte, North Carolina-based company before leaving to start a mortgage broker shop, Cornerstone Home Loans. Connie Kim: You had a long run at Wyndham Capital Mortgage dating back to 2011.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. 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. . I am a big fan of inventory to 2019 levels.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

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

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Mortgage interest rates have risen quickly in the past few months further eroding affordability. As reported in the latest NAR Existing-Home Sales , inventory still remains in tight supply, which means homes are still moving at a fast past despite the recent rise in rates and home prices. It is difficult to obtain a mortgage today.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Stick around and see if mortgage rates climb into the 7% range. Mortgage-backed securities are right about the worst place on the duration spectrum for this move. Mortgage-backed securities are right about the worst place on the duration spectrum for this move. .” Blake Bianchi, CEO of Future Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates have risen recently but they could be much worse than they are today. Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for housing in 2024. The most important data line for me, along with mortgage rates , is jobless claims data because I value labor data over inflation. That hasn’t happened.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

It kept inventory down, which propped up prices, but sales are down nearly 22%, and buyers are hungry. With rates trying to reach equilibrium after their nosedive in 2020, everyone has had to accept that pandemic-era rates are a thing of the past and therefore higher monthly mortgage payments are here to stay. Sales Decline by 21.7%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

months’ worth of housing inventory in the U.S. For some historical context, back in 2011, this data line was 101 days. NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of March was 980,000 units, up 1.0% Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month We only have 2.6 That is where we are today in America.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

As interest rates sought to stabilize following their sharp decline in 2020, both buyers and sellers had to acknowledge the end of the era of historically low pandemic-induced rates, and the beginning of higher monthly mortgage payments. The decline in inventory has made it impossible for prices to decrease due to demand.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. mortgage rates, so on the mortgage rate side of the equation, it’s never been better. Mortgage debt service payments as a percent of disposable personal income are near all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? I don’t believe housing inventory below 1.52 The housing market shifted in March of this year.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

This scarcity in inventory exerted upward pressure on prices, although it coincided with a 19% decline in sales. Despite this decline, motivated buyers were out there trying to secure a home while also trying to navigate lower affordability and low inventory. Average prices for closed sales increased by 7.2% Sales Decline by 18.9%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The reasons for that are solid demographics and low mortgage rates , which will not change much in 2021. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. Existing home inventory is also at all-time lows. Unsold inventory sits at an all-time-low 2.5-month New Home Supply.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inventory, which has been falling for years, broke to all-time lows in 2020. We didn’t have a seasonal push in inventory in 2020, and things worsened in 2021. To top it all off, we started 2022 at all-time lows, forcing bidding action everywhere until mortgage rates rose. to over 7% in a very short period of time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mortgage rate shot up again last week as the bond market continues to grapple with a growing economy in the run up to the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 5.55% a year ago at this time. Other indices showed even higher mortgage rates.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The unique thing about this time is there is a major lack of sellers because no one wants to give up their low mortgage interest rate. The problem (or the good news) depending on how you look at it is over 89% of homes with outstanding mortgages have a rate below 6%. Condos will go down something more like 5%-8%.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 30, 2024

Unlike what the Northeast experienced, South Florida inventory is up over 2022 and the second half of 2021. Inventory has risen year over year, contrary to the lows that the Northeast has seen. In the chart below you’ll see that the number of single-family homes sold is the lowest it has been in South Florida since 2011.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Mortgage rates. Home price s.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

Home prices are skyrocketing, housing inventory is at all-time lows and homebuyers have to contend with multiple bids. One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy.

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Worsening affordability issues and lower-than-usual inventory have prompted many consumers to watch this housing market from the sidelines – without the picket lines. months of inventory available in the county, down from 2.0 Single-family inventory narrowed to 1.7 Inventory of county condos rose to 2.5 in September.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The mortgage industry started 2023 with optimism due to an increase in housing activity. Fannie Mae expects home sales to remain subdued for the remainder of 2023, although recent mortgage application data came in stronger than expected. million, it still marks the slowest annual pace of sales since 2011. million units.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Tuesday’s housing starts report clearly shows that homebuilders are going to be done with single-family construction until mortgage rates fall. Currently, we are in a much different housing recession than what we had from 2005-2011. In the past, builders benefitted when mortgage rates fell toward 4% and below.

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DataMaster

JUNE 9, 2021

I can’t help but wonder how Americans will fare as they settle into exorbitant mortgages that swallow up significant chunks of their income! adjusted for inflation) in December 2011 to $372,400 in April 2021. How Much of a Household’s Income Can Be Considered a Realistic Amount to Put Towards a Monthly Mortgage?

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DataMaster

JUNE 9, 2021

I can’t help but wonder how Americans will fare as they settle into exorbitant mortgages that swallow up significant chunks of their income! adjusted for inflation) in December 2011 to $372,400 in April 2021. How Much of a Household’s Income Can Be Considered a Realistic Amount to Put Towards a Monthly Mortgage?

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DataMaster

JUNE 9, 2021

I can’t help but wonder how Americans will fare as they settle into exorbitant mortgages that swallow up significant chunks of their income! adjusted for inflation) in December 2011 to $372,400 in April 2021. How much of a household’s income can be considered a realistic amount to put towards a monthly mortgage?

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In fact, mortgage demand rose as interest rates fell following October’s slowdown of inflation growth. Does this signal a peak in mortgage rates or a temporary blip? months of inventory. Inventories across the county for all home types now stand at 2.2 Single-family inventory is unchanged from October at 2.1

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, this time around, the Federal Reserve rate hike cycle is over, and we don’t need to worry about Fed presidents going on CNBC in 2024 crying about 6% mortgage rates making their lives difficult. In 2023, we had one big bounce in sales and then sales trended lower all year long as mortgage rates went from 6% to 8%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As mortgage rates rose and housing inventory increased, home price growth decelerated in the third quarter of 2022, according to the Fannie Mae Home Price Index ( FNM-HPI ) released Monday. This is the slowest quarter of growth since Q4 2011. The FNM-HPI found that home price growth was at an annualized rate of 13.2% in Q3 2022.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 28, 2022

You can infer from the subtitle “ 2023 Will be 1982 all over again” that I’m clearly expecting an early 1980’s scenario, when inflation ran up causing interest rates, including mortgage rates, to spike. But there’s also a lack of sellers because people are reluctant to give up their low mortgage interest rates.

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Annarbor Appraisal

APRIL 9, 2020

Not that long ago, the United States in general experienced a significant decline in property sales prices due to the Great Recession and the mortgage market fallout. This information clearly shows a declining trend from the 2005 data down to a low point between 2009 and 2011. What happens if the unemployment rate tops 30%?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

We don’t have any data that shows sales are crashing from this low level: this is key when looking at the future because it does give us a place to grow sales as long as mortgage rates fall. Remember, with median sales prices and inventory, it’s very seasonal. However, remember, the dive in inventory is normal at this time of the year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 1, 2024

The 2023 housing market faced one of the same roadblocks we saw in 2022: mortgage rates were too high for home sales growth. Here’s my forecast for 2024: 10-year yield and mortgage rates For 2024, the 10-year yield range will be similar to 2023, but with a few different variables to watch. Instead, they closed 2023 at 6.67%.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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