Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? Now don’t get me wrong: demand is better in 2020 and 2021 than in any single year from 2008 to 2019.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The nation’s housing industry has entered a new normal in which the dynamics of the market appear perplexing — marked by high mortgage rates and high home prices, along with shrinking mortgage originations. trillion in mortgage originations in 2021. Fannie Mae recently projected originations for 2023 at $1.59

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

After a month of very little change in April , the construction sector had a solid month of job growth in May, according to the U.S. Construction gained 36,000 jobs in May, with residential building adding 5,000 jobs and residential specialty trade contractors gain 11,700 jobs. The post Residential construction jobs now 7.6%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The reasons for that are solid demographics and low mortgage rates , which will not change much in 2021. months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S. percent (±14.9

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Newly built homes have taken up an outsized portion of inventory since the pandemic for two main reasons, according to Redfin. home construction at the onset of the pandemic. Remote work and historically low mortgage rates made it particularly attractive to buy a home. This share is still roughly double pre-pandemic levels.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

As the housing market cooled further during the fourth quarter of 2022, homebuilders also continued to pull back on single-family construction. It uses county-level data for single and multi-family permits to gauge housing construction growth in both urban and rural metros. in Q4 2021 to -12.1% in Q4 2021 to 6.8%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

Mortgage applications for new home purchases fell 9% month-over-month in May at a seasonally unadjusted pace ? the second consecutive month sales of new homes have dropped, according to data released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Censes Bureau releases each month.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As someone concerned about the housing inflation story since inventory channels broke to all-time lows in 2020, I am frustrated by this housing completion data. All housing inventory data points to the second factor. percent) above the September 2021 rate of 1,233,000. percent)* below the September 2021 rate of 1,559,000.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

At its Annual event Wednesday, Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni forecast that interest rates could rise in the year to come, but that they will remain near all-time lows. The chart below shows interest rates for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will end this year at about 3% and could hit around 3.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This year’s housing market has been plagued with low inventory, rising home prices, and endless bidding wars, making it hard for some would-be homeowners to get their foot in the door. Will 2021 be any different? The industry’s major players all expect mortgage rates to stay in the low 3% range come 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

Will 2021 be more of the same? A buyer’s market in 2021? It’s not likely we’ll see a buyer’s housing market in 2021, at least according to experts. For example, home prices are still expected to rise in 2021, but at a smaller pace than we’ve seen this year. Is 2021 a good time to buy a house? Let’s take a look.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Tuesday’s housing starts report clearly shows that homebuilders are going to be done with single-family construction until mortgage rates fall. If it wasn’t for solid rental demand boosting multifamily construction this year — 18% year to date —this data line would have looked much worse. percent (±8.6 percent (±11.9

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

You can thank a rise in housing inventory for the gains. million in June 2020 as housing inventory has slowly improved in recent months. Total housing inventory at the end of June amounted to 1.25 from May’s inventory and down 18.8% ” Unsold housing inventory sits at a 2.6-month Sales climbed 22.9%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Fast forward to Thursday, and Opendoor reported losing $662 million in 2021. Opendoor’s losses came after iBuyer Offerpad announced it made $6 million in net income for 2021. Opendoor resold 21,725 of the homes it bought in 2021, up 119% from 2020. billion in unsold real estate inventory. The company tallied $8.0

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. The business appears durable, too. million and 7.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

What a year 2021 has been. economy continue to recover from the lows of April of 2020, but the 2021 economic data shows it has been one of the hottest years in many decades. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. A bullish housing market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Doug Duncan doesn’t claim to be an oracle, but the Fannie Mae Senior Vice President and Chief Economist on Thursday offered some forecasts for 2021, even amid a pandemic that has thrown markets into disarray. “We think at the end of 2021, it will be roughly double that, around 6%.” At the end of 2019, we were at 3.5%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2021

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage held steady at 2.87% for the week ending in August 26, according to mortgage rates data released Thursday by Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. The week prior, mortgage rates declined slightly to 2.86%. This week’s near constant mortgage rates may not yet reflect a rise in U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

housing market is in the midst of an inventory crisis. is hovering near record lows , caused by a pandemic-induced housing inventory death-spiral. To make homeownership a possibility for everyone, there needs to be a higher housing inventory of affordable homes. The number of homes for sale in the U.S. Presented by: Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

On the heels of the Federal Reserve pausing its rate hikes, mortgage demand increased, but only slightly. For the week that ended June 21, mortgage applications only climbed 0.5% from the prior week , according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The refinance share of mortgage activity decreased to 26.9% from 13.0%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

On the other hand, mortgage rates have gone down more than 1% since Oct. The builders’ stock prices have done well as mortgage rates have fallen , and this illustrates the simplicity of the homebuilders’ position: their story is really about mortgage rates and moving products. 291,000 homes are still under construction: 5.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Mortgage applications dropped for the second straight week , this time down 4% for the week ending May 28, 2021, according the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s weekly mortgage applications survey. This week’s data was compared to mortgage applications from the week of Memorial Day in 2020. the previous week.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A seasonal dip was to be expected, experts said, but the widespread distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine should give the economy – and the housing industry – a shot in the arm in 2021. trillion fiscal stimulus will drive consumer interest in locking-in historically low mortgage rates, thus driving the amount of home sales upward.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Economists at Fannie Mae expect an increase mortgage rates and home prices in 2022 due to higher inflation , a tightening of monetary policy, and low home inventory. Fannie Mae in its October economic forecast said it expects the 30-year fixed rate mortgage to average 3.3% increase in 2021, which is 1.8%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The average 30-year-fixed mortgage rose, ever so slightly, to 2.88% for the week ending Sept. Mortgage rates have been roughly flat for months now. Treasuries, causing mortgage rates to remain in place, despite the increasing dispersion of inflation across different consumer goods and services.”. for the past two weeks.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% We do not see new construction returning in a meaningful way any time soon. “The Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2022

So-called iBuyers purchased a total of 70,402 homes in 2021, more than doubling the number purchased in 2019, according to a report from Zillow released on Tuesday. set during the first quarter of 2021. For all the transacting iBuyer’s did in 2021, only one was profitable: Offerpad, which posted $6.5 million in net income.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Buyers have begun to adjust to the elevated mortgage rate levels, especially in areas where home prices have adjusted downwards to compensate,” Kelly Mangold, the principal of RCLCO Real Estate Consulting , said in a statement. This is the fourth straight month of new home sales increases. This represents 7.6

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Those advantages, coupled with cheap land, made the city a favorite for homebuilders like DR Horton and Lennar that brought plenty of new inventory to market. Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022. But high mortgage rates and high home prices proved too much for the listings boom in Jacksonville.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. million line in the sand has been this: Home prices grow above that 23% level: check Mortgage rates spike higher: check.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Blackstone had already invested heavily in the single-family rental space when it bought Home Partners of America in a deal that valued the company at $6 billion in 2021. Similarly, construction has slowed but remains elevated. The sector equates to just 1% of existing multifamily inventory.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

I always try to focus people on the total inventory data until we get inventory back into a range of 1.52-1.93 HousingWire: To add to that, since housing is in an inventory shortage, the market has changed, so the good news is inventory is growing. What levels should we be hoping for? Then this happened.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The question is when are rates going to come down?”

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

Mortgage rates fluctuated again last week, down 5 basis points to 2.95% after managing to pop back up to 3% the week prior, according to Thursday data from Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. Mortgage rates have been hovering around 3% for over a month now, as macro economic factors left the bond market hesitant over the global recovery.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

With mortgage rates hovering north of 7% for the past few months, builder confidence declined for the first time since November 2023. This will further increase the cost of construction in a market that sorely needs more inventory for first-time and first-generation buyers.”

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