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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

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growth for its top 20 city composite, and now you know why my most significant concern for housing was home prices overheating , not crashing like people have warned about from 2012-2021. This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. While people were talking about housing bubble 2.0

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Daren Blomquist’s 2023 housing outlook

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This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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Pending home sales data crushes housing bears

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As we all know, the housing sector has extremely well-developed yet untalented Americans calling for a housing crash during the years 2012-2021. My concern was that people would overreact to that sales moderation and not know how to make COVID-19 adjustments to data.

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SimpleNexus secures $108 million in Series B funding round

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The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. In fact, prior to founding SimpleNexus in 2011, CEO Matt Hansen worked on the Simplifile development architecture team for nearly five years.

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New listings data falls for third week in a row 

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Compare this level to 2008-2012 when this data line ran between 250,000 and 400,000 per week: clearly we aren’t seeing any considerable national-scale stress in this data line. If we can get the seasonal peak data to run between 95,000 and 110,000, I will consider that a home run year for new listings data growth.

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Are existing home sales showing a housing bubble?

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Let’s just say this is the final nail in the coffin for the housing bear troll camps that were so sure that this time, housing would finally crash. COVID didn’t get the housing market, but it did pull a fast one on those pesky bears. We saw hints of a flourishing housing market prior to the COVID crisis.

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Construction worker shortage has reached “crisis” levels

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Since the last housing bubble burst, when more than a million residential construction workers lost their jobs , a shortage has developed. Increasing worker pay, of course, could help attract more people to the building trades, Brady notes. But he outlined additional strategies to lure more people into the sector.