Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At But now buyers are sick of waiting around and are deciding it is time to buy.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Mortgage rates almost fell below 7%, the 10-year yield is below 4.25% again, and people are seriously talking about Fed rate cuts in 2024. Mortgage rates have fallen by almost 1% in a short time, and it has created four straight weeks of positive purchase application data. Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield We are back!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2024

We survived jobs week and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talking to Congress, with mortgage rates ending the week below 7%. But will mortgage rates keep heading lower? Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for all my housing work, so I focus on it religiously. We haven’t broken either yet.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Instead of making up for the shortfall, new listings have slumped further in 2021. Year-over-year, new listing volumes were down 16% in January and 21% in February — amounting to a 125,000 deficit in inventory compared to the same time in 2020. Buyers are paying the price appeared first on HousingWire.

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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

MAY 22, 2024

So, unless mortgage rates drop fast and demand picks up, inventory should have an average year of growth before the seasonal decline. We have had two times recently when mortgage rates dropped more than 1%. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me. This isn’t the case in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2023

Debt-ceiling drama pushed bond yields up last week, taking mortgage rates to a new 2023 high in the middle of the spring home-selling season. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,914 week to week, even though new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2023

Last week ended with a wild ride for mortgage rates. We anticipated the two inflation reports could help mortgage rates, however, we had a bad bond auction last Thursday, and the 10-year yield rose sharply. This pushed yields higher Thursday and Friday to move mortgage rates to 7.19%. We saw an example of that last week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

There is a high demand for housing and a great number of would-be buyers, and therefore sales should rise with more new listings,” Yun said. HousingWire’s virtual demo days are designed specifically to help mortgage industry decision makers identify the technology solutions they need to operate efficiently and securely.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

Home prices have skyrocketed in the past year, and data from Redfin backs up what buyers, sellers, and agents have known for months. Mortgage rates have also jumped to north of 3% ; at its current pace, the Mortgage Bankers Association is forecasting rates will reach nearly 3.5% by the end of 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: The 10-year yield had a Lord of Rings battle at a critical technical level, pushing mortgage rates lower at the end of the week with no real break in the bond market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

More than half of homes (51%) have sold above their listing price in the four week period ending May 23, 2021 — up from 26% one year ago, according to a recent study by Redfin. Diving deeper, for the two week period ending May 9, 2021, 57% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

High-end buyers tend to be more immune to mortgage rate fluctuations and flock to the luxury housing market. A surge in new listings of luxury homes was not enough to curb the price growth associated with rising demand. New listings of luxury homes soared 18.5% Buyers are looking for that again.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

Mortgage rates continued rising for the third consecutive week, increasing to 6.96%, the highest level since November 2022. The uptick in mortgage rates came amid positive inflation news – the consumer price index rate showed cooling prices in June, rising just 3.0% Other mortgage indexes show rates ticking down.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Total housing inventory growth has been slow in 2023, but with rising mortgage rates over the last few months, inventory has grown a bit faster than average. But even with mortgage rates getting as high as 8%, we’ve yet to hit within that range. Last week, mortgage rates rose toward 7.56%. Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. To view the complete research, click here.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This is a demand-driven slowdown, because new listings supply is still running 9% to 10% fewer homes for sale each week than this time last year. We’re seeing fewer new sellers each week, but inventory is building as homebuyers wait to see if mortgage rates will come down to make purchases more affordable.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? However, mortgage rates have fallen more than 1% since the recent highs, so it’s time to look at the data to explain how to interpret it.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

As you can see, we are still a bit away from my ultimate goal of having total active listings back to 2019 levels. However, this data line accelerates when mortgage rates rise and demand gets hit harder. We can grow new listings from these depressed levels and get more demand. This is not what we’re seeing now.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

In December, we saw both buyers and sellers pulling back as they continue to adjust to a challenging market,” Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist, said in a statement. Buyers started 2022 facing high home prices and limited inventories and ended the year with interest rates roughly double where they started.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. The other focus should be where mortgage rates go; only a little happened last week. Also, the volume of active listings was higher in 2022 this week, even though we were working from a lower level.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. We had a lot of drama over the week between Federal Reserve meetings and banking stress, and mortgage rates and purchase applications both fell.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Even as mortgage rates climbed over 7% in the past six weeks, home prices have not declined. Mortgage rates are sitting at their highest levels in many years. The surprisingly strong economy has the markets assuming the Fed will keep rates higher for longer, therefore, mortgage rates follow suit. in just a few weeks.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. However, expect sales to pick up again soon since mortgage rates have markedly declined after peaking late last year.” Also, this is what the Federal Reserve wants.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. From NAR : The median existing home price for all housing types in March was $393,500, an increase of 4.8% All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

We didn’t see too much volatility in mortgage rates last week, but purchase apps declined in reaction to rates rising two weeks ago. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listings rose by 8,546 , and new listing data showed some growth. Again, I am a bit mindful here due to Easter.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

. “The principal factor was the rapid increase in mortgage rates, which hurt housing affordability and reduced incentives for homeowners to list their homes. ” 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.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Mortgage rates were again in a small range, hanging near 7%. However, the real positive story here is that even with new listing data trending at an all-time low, we are getting the growth in active listings we traditionally see in the spring and summer. Purchase apps had a small week-to-week gain.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. Weekly housing inventory decreased by 6,801, while new listing data is still negative year-over-year. Then rates went up almost 1% over several weeks, completely reversing the gains.

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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. Mortgage rates followed suit, walloping buyers’ purchasing power.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. 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. . months in August 2021.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The April 2021 survey was sent to 50,000 Realtors selected from NAR’s over 1.4 There were 3,541 respondents to the online survey which ran from May 3-10, 2021, of which 1,731 had a client. “The share of first-time buyers decreased to 31% from 32% in the prior month, and 36% one year ago. .

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

Falling new inventory is constraining transaction volumes while also supporting higher home prices. It’s a dynamic not often seen in our area and it – along with stubbornly high mortgage interest rates – has generated a rollercoaster ride of data that would make Six Flags jealous. Where are all the sellers?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

The report also shows the housing market also set new records for home-selling speeds and competition, although seasonally adjusted home sales and new listings flattened from April. “Sellers are still squarely in the drivers’ seat, but buyers have hit a limit on their willingness to pay. . from April.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

NAR Research : First-time buyers were responsible for 28% of sales in October; All-cash sales accounted for 26%; Individual investors purchased 16%; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 21 days in October. million in October 2021). million in October.

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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. Conventional mortgage loans composed 74.4% in May and a peak of 74.1% million and 1.92 million to 5.61

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

from 2021, which NAR attributes to the “rapidly escalating interest rate environment.” December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. A total of 5.03 million existing homes were sold in 2022, down 17.8%

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