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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. year-over-year growth nationally and a record 21.2%

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New listings data falls for third week in a row 

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Weekly housing inventory data For the third consecutive week, we haven’t quite reached my weekly target of inventory growth between 11,000 and 17,000 homes. However, we came close to our target with inventory growth of 9,726 and there’s a silver lining: mortgage rates have recently fallen.

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Homebuilders are primed for an even better 2024

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And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. million housing units due to a severe lack of supply produced between 2012 and 2019. million and 7.3

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Texas homeownership rate reaches an all-time high

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The homeownership rate in Texas rose to an all-time high of 70% in the third quarter, exceeding the national metric for the first time since 2012, according to a report from the Texas A&M Real Estate Center. The report said that although lot development slowed in Q3, single-family permits and construction values “ trended upward.”.

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Existing home sales dip downwards for fourth month

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The median existing-home price for all housing types in May was $350,300, up 23.6% For the NAR, this is a record high and marks 111 straight months of year-over-year gains since March 2012. Total housing inventory at the end of May grew to 1.23 million units, up 7% from April’s inventory and down 20.6%

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New home sales continued to yo-yo in October

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. In addition, the amount of inventory also dropped to 470,000 homes for sale or the equivalent of a supply of 8.9 Census Bureau. Sales of new single-family homes in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 632,000, up 7.5% from September, but down 5.8%

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Are new home sales flagging a recession?

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A lot of the housing data was lagging the rate move, so it wasn’t apparent that higher rates impacted the data yet. Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.