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How will rising rates affect new home construction?

Housing Wire

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. Of course, that’s until you look at the housing completion data, which hasn’t gone anywhere in years.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

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housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Due to the solid demand for homes, housing supply for both new and existing homes are at all-time lows. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher. New Home Supply.

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Some mortgage companies expanding despite challenges

Housing Wire

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. Chicago’s housing market started out hot in 2022. Department of Agriculture (USDA). during the same time.

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Pending home sales fall 5.2% in March

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An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The lack of housing inventory is a major constraint to rising sales,” Lawrence Yun , NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. In the new construction sector , NAR predicts sales to increase 4.5% year over year. year over year to 4.56 million for all of 2023.

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Mortgage credit, and the coming purchase storm

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The index plunged from record highs seen in late 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. The group’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index remained unchanged at 124.6 last month, still hovering near levels previously seen in 2014.

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CoreLogic projects low mortgage rates and high prices into 2023

Housing Wire

over the next three years – nearly a percentage point lower than the average of the 2010-2019 decade. However, Nothaft expects that mortgages originated today, with a contract rate of 3% or lower, are more likely to have a relatively long life and lenders will not see them coming into refinance anytime soon.

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Are new home sales flagging a recession?

Housing Wire

A lot of the housing data was lagging the rate move, so it wasn’t apparent that higher rates impacted the data yet. Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. However, the housing market changed once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%.