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Altos: Sellers are coming back to the housing market, can buyers keep up?

Housing Wire

New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. There are still notably not a lot of sellers. But home sellers are gradually easing back into this housing market. There were 66,000 new listings this week, of which 14,000 are already in contract. It’s not a ton of sellers.

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Unsold inventory is rising across the country

Housing Wire

There are more homes on the market now than anytime since August 2020. This number will probably peak at about 700,000 this summer, crossing over 2020 levels at that point. New listings climbed during the past week and there are now 72,000 more single-family homes on the market. real estate market at the end of May 2024.

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The standoff between homebuyers and sellers

Housing Wire

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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The mortgage rate lock-in didn’t start in 2022

Housing Wire

After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. In July 2022, new listings volume per week dropped from 90,000 at the end of June to approximately 74,000 just after the July 4th holiday. That’s a swing of 17% fewer sellers in just a matter of days.

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Opinion: Key signals to watch in a volatile real estate market

Housing Wire

In May, I wrote about the signs to watch for a real estate market slowdown. The price of new listings is dropping. The holidays usually see far fewer sellers — most sellers wait until January to list their homes. More homes are taking price reductions. And, there are fewer immediate sales.

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How this week’s Fed meeting could impact inventory

Housing Wire

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. 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. As we started 2024, the signals in the U.S. The takeaway?

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Buyers are struggling to compete in the white-hot Cincinnati market

Housing Wire

There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. While DeRoussel’s experience sounds exactly like many of the stories that emerged from the pandemic-fueled homebuying frenzy of 2020 and 2021, this happened just a few weeks ago in early April 2024. “The

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