Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week, I asserted that housing inventory growth had finished for the year. This week, the available inventory of unsold single-family homes crept up minimally. It looks like this is evidence that housing markets are returning to normal rather than a case of sellers panicking, but it’s worth keeping an eye on.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

What’s going on with housing inventory ? The last four weeks of new listings data have been the most volatile since mortgage rates breached 6% in 2022. One week, we had the biggest decline in new listings data all year, which might indicate Americans are giving up on listing their homes.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Last fall when people were still expecting mortgage rates to be falling this year, it was common to assume rates would be in the low 6s or 5s this year and people asked me if lower rates would bring a flood of inventory. The only way inventory would grow in 2024 is if mortgage rates climbed. But the evidence is the opposite.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the most important housing market stories in recent weeks has been the decline in new listings , which has slowed the growth rate of total inventory. Once that happens, I can finally take the savagely unhealthy housing market theme off my talking points. What does this mean? million to 1.93

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data. Things are different post-2020, and inventory is bottoming out later in the year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. At the time, I observed that even if mortgage rates stayed flat, the momentum seemed to be in the cards for broad, slow growth in the market. I talk frequently about how rising rates creates rising inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the housing market rundown for the last week: Purchase application data had a solid week-to-week gain of 25%. Housing inventory decreased by 566 units, which is not a significant decline. Last week’s housing market data provided mixed news. Weekly housing inventory fell, but not by much.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The housing inventory shortage dominated much of the conversation surrounding the housing market in 2022, but thanks to softening homebuyer demand, the number of active listings finished the year up 54.7% compared to the year prior, according to Realtor.com’s December Housing Report. from December 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It’s official – housing inventory in America is at a crisis level. The number of active listings hit an all-time low during the week ending November 28, according to a Redfin report published on Wednesday. This marks a 14% year-over-year increase and a 31% increase from 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. Weekly inventory change (Feb. Weekly inventory change (Feb.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

Last week, housing inventory grew and the number of price cuts fell, which is expected at this time of the year. I hope the next thing we see is housing inventory grow at the level it typically does in January or February instead of being delayed until March or April. So let’s hope for more home sellers in 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. Active inventory rose by 823 single-family homes and new listing data is trending at all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. The Federal Reserve wanted to see the bidding wars end and the days on the market grow.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

So, it was necessary to highlight that for this report because our fresh current inventory data paints a different picture. From NAR : The median existing home price for all housing types in April was $407,600, an increase of 5.7% The chart below shows that the inventory growth rate picked up more in 2024 after March.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last June, the Federal Reserve said it wanted a housing reset , which meant it wanted higher mortgage rates to destroy the housing market. Today, the Federal Reserve achieved its primary goal; the days on the market are now above 30 days, which was the most important data line to get housing back to somewhat normal.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. On the other hand, inventory is still low, and homes are still selling fast, often with multiple offers. All major housing market metrics point to a restrained housing market.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to Zillow ’s annual predictions, Indianapolis will be the fourth-hottest real estate market of 2024, thanks to its solid economy, housing inventory, affordability and pent-up demand. The top three spots in the ranking were Buffalo, New York, and Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. The real estate market As of Jan.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Despite the population decline, Illinois’ housing market remains relatively strong. The state has an Altos Research Market Action Index score of 44, which is above the national score of 39. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a seller’s market. It’s depressing,” Laricy said of the downtown market.

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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. The environment has also prompted many homeowners to list their homes for rent rather than sale.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

So few single-family homes are for sale in America that just two months of inventory is available across the top 100 metro areas in the country, a historic low. ” “Higher priced” homes in hot housing markets in cities such as Los Angeles, Palm Beach and Phoenix are also increasingly in short supply, the report’s authors found.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16, but there are signs that housing market demand may be reaching its peak, according to a recent study from Redfin. 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.). from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the biggest questions in real estate right now is how rising interest rates will impact the housing market. More expensive money also meant fewer investors holding homes so inventory would climb too. The market has been so hot, many worry that rising rates will finally be the catalyst to pop the bubble.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The premise of a mortgage rate lockdown is simple: so many American households have such low mortgage rates that some will never move once rates rise, which then locks up housing inventory. Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Inventory is climbing vs. last year, and home prices have stayed flat for three weeks now. And as demand slows, inventory grows. Inventory is up over last year and is about to turn the corner and start climbing for the spring selling season, probably within a couple weeks. Is it too much inventory?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2023

Home prices aren’t crashing, despite what the housing bubble boys are saying. The housing bubble boys are a crew that from 2012 to 2019 screamed housing crash every year. 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?

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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

APRIL 15, 2024

Competition in the housing market is heating up heading into May and June. metros, with coastal California cities and Seattle leading the charge in monthly home value growth, according to Zillow’s newest market report. These metros also continue to grapple with below-average inventory recovery, maintaining pressure on buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

“I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. We are going to see an increase in inventory.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Inventory increases aren’t occurring at a super fast pace, but the number of homes on the market across the country keeps expanding. The good news for the housing market is that the pace of sales is gradually improving due to the expanded supply. housing market as we roll into May 2024.

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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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

million, something that couldn’t happen from 2008-2019 because we didn’t have the demographic profile to get to that level until household formation grew. However, the housing market did run into one problem in 2020. I knew housing would be OK as long as home prices only grew at 23% over five years — 4.6%

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