Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

Mortgage applications for new home purchases in June decreased 3% from May and 23.8% year over year, suggesting a slowdown in the housing market, according to a recent report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. “Last year was the strongest year in the housing market for new home sales in over a decade,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. Weekly inventory fell by 6201 , and new listing data is down noticeably from last year, which was different than last week. According to Altos Research data , housing Inventory fell by 6,201 over the last week; the decline is less this week than last.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With mortgage rates briefly topping 8% and home prices breaking records throughout the year, many would-be sellers simply decided not to bother listing their homes, exacerbating already tight inventories. New data from the U.S. When inventory bounces back The extremes of the 2020s have dealt big blows to for-sale inventories.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Buyers in this real estate market notice these affordability changes, and so we can see in the data fewer home purchase offers, slightly climbing unsold inventory, and slightly more price reductions for the homes that are on the market. Rising rates make more inventory. So how much inventory will we add this fall?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Price impacts could strengthen again if 30-year rates continue to climb, as they have through late February, although tight inventory will put a floor on how much prices will ease, the report noted. 25, purchase lock counts were 21% below the same week in 2019, and 30% below the levels during the same week in 2018.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2023

In 2022, mortgage rates got as high as 7.37%, so the question was: how low do rates have to go for housing demand to get better? On June 16, 2022, I put the housing market into a recession , which is where housing demand, housing jobs, housing income and housing production all drop.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The same trends in the housing market in recent weeks are still dominant this week. To find out more of my weekly housing market insights backed by Altos Research data, watch the video above. To find out more of my weekly housing market insights backed by Altos Research data, watch the video above.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In addition, jobless claims data had another solid print, showing that the labor market hasn’t broken yet, which led to more selling of the 10-year yield. On housing inventory , new listings data saw a small decline last week, but active listings grew at a healthy clip.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

We all needed some rest from the crazy housing market we’ve experienced in recent years. Like most markets across the country, the Cleveland area housing market has been red hot for the past few years. How have the rapidly increasing mortgage interest rates impacted the housing market in Northeast Ohio?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, the housing market did run into one problem in 2020. Inventory levels broke to all-time lows and thus created massive housing inflation quickly, which broke my model. I knew housing would be OK as long as home prices only grew at 23% over five years — 4.6% We saw this happen in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Declining mortgage rates could have improved affordability for buyers in the housing market in February, but instead spurred a demand that, combined with a persistent lack of inventory across the U.S., “In many areas of the country, that dynamic – low inventory and a modest rise in demand – led to an uptick in home prices.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

bidding-war rate Redfin saw in June 2020, when the housing market was starting to rebound from a temporary standstill triggered by pandemic shutdowns, said Laura Sechrist Molenda, a Redfin real estate agent based in Southern California. In 2018-2019, total housing inventory was in the range between 1.52

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

A Homesnap report said total new listings increased only.22% annual increase was the strongest since October 2018, meaning that while homes are being snatched up, building material inventory, including lumber, will remain low and expensive. – thus, increasing inventory and driving overall prices down.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

housing market could have a soft landing in 2023. The market was roaring — way too hot — with bidding wars, speculators and investors who thought they couldn’t lose. By October 2022, it looked like 2023 would have rising inventory and falling home prices. Inventory has fallen all year. I grew pretty bearish again.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

The question is, can lower mortgage rates save the housing market from its recent downtrend? We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. In 2018, sales trends fell from 5.72 We see some of this in the active listing data as new listings are declining. Traditionally, total inventory ranges between 2 to 2.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The median price of the new listings this week is $399,900. As the summer progresses, each subsequent week of new listings gets priced at a slight discount to the previous weeks. This trend is why we’ve called it a soft landing for the housing market. Inventory growth seems to have a few more weeks to go.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 10, 2023

This marks the introduction of a new feature. Each month, this blog will publish a fresh assessment of the King County area housing market. A patch of foul weather and persistent economic challenges chilled an already cold housing market. This is not a replay of the Great American Housing Bubble.”.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

Fast forward to today and markets here and across our nation are going through serious inflationary pressures. Prices have soared in most areas – including a 30% jump in the past year for single-family homes in King County – amid a shortage of inventory and a sharp rise in the number of buyers. million for sale today. in April).

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

NEW YORK – The U.S. housing market is in an uneasy state of equilibrium. The start of the year, of course, is when homeowners and real estate agents start to bring new inventory to market. Clearly, the amount of supply on the market is still extraordinarily low relative to demand.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 10, 2023

MARCH HOUSING UPDATE The opening months of the Seattle/King County housing market can best be expressed as sparks of activity within a mostly tentative purchasing environment. The number of homeowners deciding to sell continues to lag, but inventory and time on market continue to [mostly] climb, reflecting still-hesitant buyers.”

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Worsening affordability issues and lower-than-usual inventory have prompted many consumers to watch this housing market from the sidelines – without the picket lines. October figures from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service strongly suggest prospective buyers and sellers are taking a wait-and-see approach. higher YoY.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The region’s real estate scene in 2023 will be remembered for rising home prices and scant new listings. As the year dims, all eyes fixate on 2024’s potential: a hopeful dance fueled by dreams of lower rates and a wave of new homes for sale. Buyers and sellers tiptoed through caution.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Here’s how topsy-turvy our housing market has been this past year-plus. Now you may think I am referring only to homeowners, as in did they miss the peak of the market to sell their home at top dollar. The market may go into a brief lull – as it does during this quarter and into early next year. OCTOBER HOUSING UPDATE.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

One of the hottest search phrases on Google today is, “When is the housing market going to crash?”. Not “ Will the housing market crash?” See the August housing report further below, if you dare!). A reading above 50 means more builders view market conditions as favorable than poor. SEPTEMBER HOUSING UPDATE.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2022

What is true is that every time we lean in and face the headwinds of economic weakness the housing market is a welcome refuge.As An independent estimate from 2018 claims roughly 40% of the nation is in a flood-risk area. cities to determine the fastest-rising housing markets and two in our area ranked in the Top 25.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 8, 2021

housing markets. The national median family income rose just 4% from 2019 to 2020, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, while most home prices are jumping each year by 10% or more. The image was taken from a drone above The Parc, a condo in Belltown, where I am promoting one of my new listings.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

>> The City of Kent reported home prices increased 88% between 2010 and 2018, while incomes for homeowners rose 11% in that time. As the population grew 39% – twice as fast as the rest of South King County – the city has struggled to provide adequate, affordable housing. AUGUST HOUSING UPDATE. months from 0.5.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

People are looking at higher prices, there’s slim pickings in inventory and now we have higher mortgage rates.”. One of those teachings is that when a market keeps rising steadily for an extended period there comes a time when expectations for some type of a correction weaves its way into the conversation. in January to $775,000.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Warns Danielle Hale, chief economist with realtor.com: “While younger Millennial and Gen Z buyers are expected to play a growing role in the housing market, fast-rising prices will create a bigger barrier to entry for the many first-time buyers in these generations who don’t have existing home equity to tap for down payment savings.”.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 9, 2021

The National Association of Realtors® recently announced a new partnership with the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance, a nonprofit that promotes homeownership and advocates for greater equality in housing. It is truly the epitome of a sellers’ market and experts I hear from are saying, basically, get used to it. Looking for selection?

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