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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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Is the savagely unhealthy housing market back?

Housing Wire

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. Instead, active listings are near all-time lows, which wasn’t the case from 2012-2019.

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Median payment on purchase mortgage applications rises to $2,201: MBA

Housing Wire

Homebuyer affordability declined in March as mortgage rates and home prices remained elevated. The national median monthly payment for purchase mortgage applicants rose to $2,201 in March, up from $2,184 in February. The index is benchmarked to 100 in March 2012. The national index increased 0.8% in March, up from 172.8

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This savagely unhealthy housing market needs higher rates

Housing Wire

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. However, this year has seen one big game-changer: the 10-year yield finally cracked over 1.94%, which drove mortgage rates over 4%. We have been through a lot of drama since 2012, especially the drama in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

You can see why I have been on team higher mortgage rates for some time now because we don’t have any other way to get off this madness. To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 Housing is the cost of shelter to own the debt; it’s not an investment.

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Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory falls

Housing Wire

We had a lot of drama over the week between Federal Reserve meetings and banking stress, and mortgage rates and purchase applications both fell. Mortgage rates fell last week as we started the week at 6.73%, got as low as 6.43% to end the week at 6.5%. Mortgage rates fell to a low of 6.43% then ended the week at 6.5%.

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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

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. Imagine if mortgage rates didn’t rise this year.