Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. Does this signal a peak in mortgage rates or a temporary blip? Prices declined 5.4%

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

That’s where buyers are paying about 42% more in their monthly mortgage payments for the same house today than they did a year ago. home prices, up 14% year over year (YoY) by one measure, and escalating mortgage rates, which have risen about 2.1 based on 2020 data from the U.S. The potent combo of rising U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 8, 2021

The median down payment on single-family homes and condos purchased with financing jumped 19% in Q4 of 2020 from the previous quarter. trillion in equity in 2020 from a year earlier, according to S&P CoreLogic, a property information and analytics business. of all mortgages in the country. BY THE NUMBERS. Buyers in the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer. Information from the National Mortgage Database shows 83% of all mortgage holders enjoy an interest rate below 5% when today’s average rate is about 6.5%.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

Adjustable-rate mortgages were cheap and easy to acquire, home prices were artificially inflated and supply plentiful. The Federal Reserve is supporting the purchase of mortgage-backed securities as well as helping to sustain low interest rates for mortgages. Then the housing bubble burst. range won’t last forever.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Others – Meritage Homes (+20% YoY in 2021) and Tri Point Homes (+15-30% YoY in 2022) – expect tremendous growth of new communities. And many of the new projects are larger than in years past. Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. New data show this subset of buyers accounted for 2.8%

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 13, 2024

Many residents struggle to find and keep a home that they can afford, accentuated by soaring housing prices since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Homes considered “affordable” tend to be at or below 80% of median family income levels and only 23,877 units have been constructed across the state since 2020 – about 3.3K

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

The index showed a growing difficulty to afford a home even while household income and mortgage rates improved compared to last year. And, Seattle’s attempt to force building developers to incorporate more affordable homes within their new residential endeavors yielded only 21 units in 2020 out of a swell of 224 construction projects.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 9, 2021

A new door improves curb appeal, adds modern technology to the house and, based on my observations, doesn’t make as much noise as older models! The commodities market saw prices reach an all-time high of $1711 per thousand board feet in early May of this year after a pre-pandemic price of $303 (March 2020).

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 8, 2022

Calling upon Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other secondary-market mortgage holders to lower the bar to ownership through tax credits, larger deductions on mortgage interest and greater options for down payment assistance can also help. >> Forty-five percent of residential mortgages in the U.S. was $1889. >>

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A report by RentCafe claims Seattle metro added 36,952 units to the rental market between 2020 and 2022. >> First a look at September’s numbers: A wave of last-chance listings for the year hit the market after Labor Day. That increased new listings by 7.5% (2884 units) and available homes on the market by 12% (3602) from Sept.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2022

RECESSIONS AND MORTGAGE RATES Recent data and the traditional definition show we are now in a recession even though there is debate among economic and political folks. this chart shows, each time the economy slowed significantly, mortgage rates declined. In fact, rates have fallen by an average of 1.1 year-on-year (YoY).

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Home prices are overheating, mortgage rates are inching up from the start of the year and the supply of homes is in an unseasonable valley – far from its Mt. Today, 37% of all buyers are Millennials and they comprise about 54% of all mortgage applications. The median price in the West was $493,300, up 17% from March 2020. >>

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 8, 2022

This, coupled with a significant portion of homeowners standing pat with mortgages at or below 4% interest (and other factors) is causing the market to lose steam. Home shoppers often focus on the direction of mortgage interest rates, which have jumped more than two percentage points this year alone to a range of 5.75%-6.0%

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 13, 2023

You are not going to get people to come back into the office to the same degree as they did before 2020. The ongoing decline in residential lending has been fueled by higher mortgage interest rates and consumer price inflation. >> Seattle is rated the 11 th -best place to raise a family in the U.S., The city was No.

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