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Buyers are overpaying, but are there signs of a bubble?

Housing Wire

Home prices have skyrocketed in the past year, and data from Redfin backs up what buyers, sellers, and agents have known for months. “This is the strongest seller’s market since at least 2006,” Fairweather said. The post Buyers are overpaying, but are there signs of a bubble? by the end of 2021.

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How housing credit is shaping housing inventory

Housing Wire

Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. Now, nobody is listing their homes to sell and buy unless they’re 100% pre-qualified. On top of more legitimate buyers, we fixed the credit markets, meaning housing credit looks fantastic. So you can see why we have so few stressed sellers.

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Why purchase application data is below 2008 levels

Housing Wire

Post-2012, whenever mortgage rates rise, existing home sales always trend below 5 million. Homeowners are in a better financial situation now, they live in their homes longer and longer, so the inventory channels have been much different post-2012. New listing data is down 5% year to date, as you can imagine.

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Are we seeing a mortgage rate lockdown?

Housing Wire

Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter. It wasn’t the rate move that caught my attention — it was the new listing data. As you can see below, that sharp move to 6.25% caused new listing data to stall at first.

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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

Housing Wire

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. Since the credit standards have improved post-2010, we shouldn’t see distressed sellers until a job loss recession happens, even if sales fall noticeably.

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King County Home Buyers and Sellers in ‘Re-Evaluation’ Mode

Will Springer Realtor

Ah, for the good old days of 2019 – when we could stomach home prices closer to the mid-million-dollar mark and housing options were somewhat plentiful amid a mildly competitive buyer environment. King County new listings fell 13% from June to July (2158), led by a 20% slide in Seattle (690). on the Eastside. The county saw a 4.9%

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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

This means all those men and women since 2012 who have been saying its housing 2008 all over again on their YouTube , Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets simply don’t have the proper training to talk about housing economics. crash, especially from 2012-2019. New listings are declining now. From Redfin.

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