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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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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. million total housing inventory data as that is the level of inventory that would change my thesis that this is a savagely unhealthy market.

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Existing home sales dip downwards for fourth month

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For the NAR, this is a record high and marks 111 straight months of year-over-year gains since March 2012. “Lack of inventory continues to be the overwhelming factor holding back home sales, but falling affordability is simply squeezing some first-time buyers out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.

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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. Top markets for affordable renovated housing inventory. Around one-third of construction workers are immigrants, and a growing number — now about 11% — are women.

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As vacant foreclosures increase, so does buyer interest

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“We still have vacancy and blight issues but they are not crippling as they were a decade ago,” said Ian Beniston, executive director at the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC), a nonprofit community development corporation in Youngstown, Ohio. Seeking new inventory sources. In 2008, 2009, it was triage.

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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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New home sales report is deja vu all over again

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months and total inventory are collapsing again and we might see new fresh all-time lows before the spring of 2022. From Census: For Sale Inventory and Months’ Supply: The seasonally?adjusted Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The monthly supply of existing homes at 2.1 When supply is 4.4

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