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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. NAR lists the current inventory at 1.22 million, with a peak in 2007 a tad over 4 million.

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Minority homeownership gains ground, but disparities persist: NAR

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million homeowners added between 2012 and 2022. According to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) titled “A Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America,” Asian and Hispanic Americans achieved historic heights in homeownership rates in 2022 of 63.3% in 2012 to 65.2% and 51.1%, respectively.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

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The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month

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Home prices soared in March amid record demand

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Homes sold in March were on the market for 21 days, per the report, the shortest period between listing and sale since 2012. A National Association of Realtors’ report from 2020’s end found the highest volume of home sales since 2006. Forty-six percent of homes sold within a week after the hitting the market. But with a third of U.S.

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This savagely unhealthy housing market needs higher rates

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The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. Inventory is always seasonal. Today inventory levels are at 1.02

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Existing home sales dip downwards for fourth month

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million, the National Association of Realtors reported on Tuesday. For the NAR, this is a record high and marks 111 straight months of year-over-year gains since March 2012. Supply is expected to improve, which will give buyers more options and help tamp down record-high asking prices for existing homes.”. 9% from April to 5.8

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Did existing home sales peak in 2021?

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The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for December came in as a miss of estimates at 6.18 The housing bubble boys of 2012-2020 turned into the forbearance crash bros of 2021 and have been nothing but an epic disaster in their forecast, which has now ended with the lost decade of bad housing calls.

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