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Spring forecast: More inventory and rising home sales

Housing Wire

New listing volume last week was 18% more than a year ago. Pending sales Last week saw 69,000 new contracts for single-family home purchases across the country. That brings us to 367,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. That’s 60,000 new listings and another 17,000 immediate sales.

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Buyers showing renewed interest in condos

Housing Wire

share in June 2019. above its asking price, that means it was listed for $301,872, said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist. “Many buyers who have been priced out of the market for single-family homes have turned to condos,” Fairweather said. share in June 2020 and the 20.2% If a condo sold for 0.7%

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Expect the growth rate of existing home prices to cool down this year

Housing Wire

Looking at the chart above, inventory started growing late this year, but it seems normal compared to 2017-2019. One difference between 2023 and 2024 is that this year the pending contract data shows small but steady year-over-year sales growth. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me.

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Altos: Are higher mortgage already rates deterring homebuyers?

Housing Wire

This is not a recipe to keep the home buyer momentum we saw building in December. Remember that the way to more selection for home buyers is with higher mortgage rates. Spring buyers’ market It’s the spring buyers market and inventory is falling each week. There are more buyers than sellers. A few years.

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Rising insurance costs, ample inventory create a unique market in Southwest Florida

Housing Wire

According to data from Altos Research as of March 15, the 90-day average number of single-family active listings in the Naples-Marco Island metro area was 2,362, up from 1,605 one year earlier but down from the 3,760 listings recorded in late March 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In comparison, the average U.S.

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Redfin: Over half of buyers are going above asking price

Housing Wire

Diving deeper, for the two week period ending May 9, 2021, 57% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market. The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. But that’s not slowing down buyers.

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Altos: Housing inventory could grow 40% this year

Housing Wire

Market outliers The Gulf markets from Southwest Florida over to Louisiana now have inventory levels mostly back above their pre-pandemic levels of 2019 or higher. There were 59,000 new listings unsold this week. Last year there was still a lot more buyer momentum than sellers. That’s 15% growth over the pace of 2023.

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