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Pretium Partners to acquire 4,000 D.R. Horton rental homes in $1.5B deal

Housing Wire

The deal comes at a time when a lack of for-sale home inventory is boosting the appetite for homebuilders. The transaction could also signal investors’ re-entry into the housing market after institutional investors shed properties at the end of 2022 following a drop in housing prices nationwide. according to the firm.

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

Housing Wire

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. crash, especially from 2012-2019. million listings.

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What would it take to crash the housing market?

Housing Wire

Home prices are skyrocketing, housing inventory is at all-time lows and homebuyers have to contend with multiple bids. Inventory velocity. April 10, 2020: We needed a lot of inventory, fast. The velocity of inventory rising in the next three months is limited. April 2022: Inventory has not recovered. Can this last?

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The forbearance crash bros spoke too soon

Housing Wire

Some of their biggest hits (or should I say misses) in the last 8 years have been the never-realized silver tsunami crash, the ever popular investor supply crash, the Airbnb supply crash, and this year, COVID-19 was for sure going to send prices crashing 30%-50%. The number isn’t growing; it’s slowly shrinking.

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Why industry watchers expect mortgage rates to fluctuate in coming weeks

Housing Wire

The Federal Reserve ‘s decision to raise the federal funds rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday signaled that officials are still focused on bringing down inflation to 2% while monitoring how much recent bank failures slow lending in the economy and cool demand. The national median existing-home sale price fell 0.2%

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Homebuilders are at max capacity. And the housing shortage keeps widening

Housing Wire

Deitz said the “underbuilding” in the home market between 2012-2019 “left us with the housing deficit.” Dietz concurs, adding that two-thirds of homebuilders say lot inventories are “low or very low.” “And And that’s, in part, because of the regulatory environment [restrictive zone rules],” Faries said. “In

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Economic Turbulence Prompts Seattle Area Market Concern vs. Year Ago

Will Springer Realtor

“The number of homeowners deciding to sell continues to lag, but inventory and time on market continue to [mostly] climb, reflecting still-hesitant buyers.” decline over the 12 months ending March 2012. Condo inventory stands at 1.7 months’ inventory for all home types, down sharply from 2.3 Eastside inventory is 1.4