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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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. After all, more sellers means more sales in 2024. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

In November of 2019 the number of single-family homes for sale was at 6,000. In 2024, she is optimistic that sellers will sell and more buyers will come to the market, as there is a big pent-up demand. Lyons is optimistic about 2024, especially if mortgage rates keep declining and new listings keep hitting the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Traditionally, we do see housing inventory fall in the month of December, however, we clearly saw in the second half of 2022 that higher rates created more days on the market and inventory was lingering longer. That’s a big one-week change.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Looking at the chart above, inventory started growing late this year, but it seems normal compared to 2017-2019. This growth is a positive housing story in 2024, something I talked about on Yahoo Finance this morning. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me. million in April.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. This is good news for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

At the same time, seller volume dried up. But now sellers are coming back into the market. New listing volume last week was 18% more than a year ago. New listings New listings dipped a little from the previous week but there were still 22% more sellers hitting the market last week than the same week last year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. However, we have entered a tricky period in housing economics where we might have to take this premise more seriously since mortgage rates recently got as low as 2.5% The parts of the U.S.

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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, 2024

Even as money is more expensive and there are more sellers than a year ago, we can also see slight home sales growth over 2023. The housing market data has been changing very rapidly this year. New listings rise New listings continue to show us that more sellers are interested in this market this year.

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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. We are still below 200,000 of total jobless claims.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The suspicion was that there were a bunch of sellers who were waiting to sell: Once rates fell these sellers would come rushing back to this real estate market and we’d finally see inventory grow. Second, because people think of home sellers as being locked-in by high interest rates. Last week, 30.5%

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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 Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings. Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Growing supply shortages are holding housing prices higher, and affordability constraints coupled with elevated rates lock potential sellers in place. 25, purchase lock counts were 21% below the same week in 2019, and 30% below the levels during the same week in 2018. As of the week ending Feb. With 30-year rates at 6.5%

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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. Sold homes were listed for a week or less in 17 major metros. Home prices are surging in major U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Armed with data from HousingWire sister company Altos Research , we can see in minute detail how the housing market responded to the recent 7%-and-higher rate environment and what the market may see again soon. Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates.

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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. compared to December 2019.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Although I don’t have any capacity to predict interest rates, I do know what happens to the housing market if rates rise or fall from here. While inventory is growing across the country, some markets are way more impacted and already have more homes on the market than in 2019 or 2020 just before the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. This means their cash flow is excellent, as the FICO score data has shown us for a long time and they can stay in their houses for as long as they want. So you can see why we have so few stressed sellers. Demographics also play a role here.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

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. Housing inventory There are now just under 600,000 single-family homes on the market. More home sellers are coming back to the market each week.

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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 couldn’t even see it. It is so hard to compete with that.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. Since the credit standards have improved post-2010, we shouldn’t see distressed sellers until a job loss recession happens, even if sales fall noticeably.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

There are more buyers than sellers. We have slightly more sellers now than we did a year ago and inventory is now 8.8% There are 497,000 single family homes unsold on the market across the U.S. that’s 5,800 fewer homes on the market than last week. There were 7% more new sellers this week than the same week a year ago.

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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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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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

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. Two of my buyers just had their offers accepted because the sellers’ first buyers backed out.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

So let’s hope for more home sellers in 2024. Weekly housing inventory data Here is a look at the first week of the year: Weekly inventory change (Jan. In any case, we will keep an eye on housing inventory going out in the future. We can grow new listings from these depressed levels and get more demand.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s according to Black Knight , which just released a white paper that studies how long it would take to sell all the homes currently listed for sale in a given market based on a prevailing sales rate, if no new listings are added (a metric it calls “months of remaining inventory”).

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The National Association of Realtors Confidence Index Survey for April reveals how hot the housing market is. Per the report, homes that sold had five offers on average , and nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about what could change the housing market, which was a 10-year yield above 1.94%, which means rates over 4%.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

It’s the fourth consecutive decline, but many housing industry observers see big potential for the year ahead. from December 2019, with all regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, West) reaching double-digit year-over-year increases. However, contract signings rose 21.4%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

We are witnessing a true V-shaped sales recovery as homebuyers continue their strong return to the housing market,” said Yun. Home sellers are seeing their homes go under contract in record time, with nine new contracts for every 10 new listings.”. gain compared with 2019. million, a 1.1%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Earlier in the year, I labeled this a savagely unhealthy housing market based on the premise that Inventory would break to all-time lows, creating forced bidding and causing days on the market to collapse. My premise in the summer of 2020 was that a 10-year yield above 1.94% could change the housing market.

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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. million to the lows of January 2019 at 4.98 Housing acts better when rates are below 4%. We see some of this in the active listing data as new listings are declining.

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