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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. The Federal Reserve wanted to see the bidding wars end and the days on the market grow.

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Top markets for affordable renovated housing inventory

Housing Wire

home prices are quickly shifting the affordability calculus for prospective homebuyers in 2021 — even though mortgage rates have remained near record lows. from a year ago to $356,700, according to the National Association of Realtors. Renovated Inventory to the Rescue. Top Markets for Renovated Inventory.

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Housing inventory crisis continues in 2022

Housing Wire

Early in 2021, when I was talking about how people should worry about home prices overheating, I had a glimmer of hope that maybe toward the end of 2021 we would be spared another seasonal collapse of inventory. Inventory always falls in the fall and winter, but I hoped it wouldn’t be a repeat of 2020. million and 6.16

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Is housing inventory growth really slowing down?

Housing Wire

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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Home inventory is climbing even faster than this time a year ago

Housing Wire

Available inventory of homes for sale is on the rise in late September, which is very unusual for this time of year. In fact, inventory is growing faster than this time a year ago. What’s happening with inventory? There are now 528,000 single-family homes on the market. That’s an increase of 1.8% from last week.

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With low inventory, house hunters are in full safari mode

Housing Wire

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. This is what I call a supply-constrained market. “In

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Did existing home sales peak in 2021?

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for December came in as a miss of estimates at 6.18 This number is in line with my sales range for 2021 of 5.84 More Americans bought homes in 2020 and 2021 than any single year from 2008 to 2019, which looks normal. million to 6.2 million and 6.16

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