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Coastal California metros were the priciest  in March: Zillow

Housing Wire

These metros also continue to grapple with below-average inventory recovery, maintaining pressure on buyers. New Orleans, San Antonio, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville are among the locales that posted the slowest month-over-month price growth in March. ” Competition is stiff for attractive listings.

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The housing market is losing steam

Housing Wire

This has dampened new home sales and quickened home-price growth.” ” Mark Palim, deputy chief economist at Fannie Mae , said anecdotal reports of builders delaying or turning down orders to clear a growing construction backlog appears to be borne out by the recent housing starts data. percent,” Palim said Tuesday.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Housing Inventory. Home price s. million in 2023.

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

I wouldn’t read too much into the fact that this new home sales report beat estimates, but I would say that in the future, if mortgage rates get back toward 6%, the homebuilders have creative ways to sell their homes that the existing home seller might not be inclined to do. However, this isn’t how inventory grows in America.

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September single-family housing starts reached highest level since 2007

Housing Wire

above the September 2019 rate of 1.274 million, the Bureau said. “The housing market is being constrained by the lack of inventory, with both new and existing homes being sold faster than new listings are arriving.”. above the September 2019 rate of 1.437 million. .” “The former rose 8.5%

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Can lower mortgage rates stop the housing recession?

Housing Wire

We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. million to the lows of January 2019 at 4.98 We see some of this in the active listing data as new listings are declining. Lower rates may pull some of these listings forward as people feel more comfortable with rates down; time will tell. NAR total inventory data.

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Homebuilders struggle with supply-side bottlenecks

Housing Wire

“The conventional share of applications hit a new high, as overall housing inventory levels remain extremely low and are pushing home prices higher,” he said. The average loan size of new homes increased from $363,493 in January to $370,679 in February. A December report from Homesnap showed total new listings increased.22%

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