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. However, one thing is for sure, housing is not going to crash due to large-scale panic-selling — a scare tactic of late 2021 that didn’t work then or now.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

It is nearly April, which means temperatures in the Austin metropolitan area are heating up — and so is the housing market. The market is still strong,” said Wendy Cash, a broker at Austin area-based Century 21 Hellmann Stribling. Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. Last fall, when mortgage rates first jumped over 7% we could see dramatic and immediate slowdown in buyer demand. was $414,900.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2023

Active housing inventory , thankfully, saw some decent growth last week. 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. Purchase application data had a second straight week of declines. Starting on Nov.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

Housing inventory finally broke under 2022 levels last week. To give you an idea how different this year is from last year, last week in 2022, active listings grew 30,940 while this year they only grew 5,848. We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

This article is part of our housing market update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. The impact on housing markets. To register for the HW+ event, go here. Deviations from economic predictions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last June, the Federal Reserve said it wanted a housing reset , which meant it wanted higher mortgage rates to destroy the housing market. This facilitated the biggest decline in existing home sales for a single year that we will ever see in modern-day history due to the high level of sales in January of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Indianapolis, which had 880,600 residents as of July 2022, offers a very strong and steady real estate market that attracts buyers looking for a more affordable lifestyle. There is always a big slowdown between Thanksgiving and New Year. Things will pick up in the next week or two.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. Let’s dive into the trend lines of the housing market. We are working from a shallow bar in this index – seven years of growth were taken away in one year in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

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. In addition, new listing data turned negative year over year after the second half of 2022. From the St.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Traditionally, we do see housing inventory fall in the month of December, however, we clearly saw in the second half of 2022 that higher rates created more days on the market and inventory was lingering longer. 30, 2022-Jan.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. A lot of sellers are also willing to let buyers slip away because they don’t want to concede to repair requests,” Morre said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. Weekly inventory change (Feb.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

A few months ago, the United States housing market failed Econ 101. metropolitan areas in February 2022, based on year-over-year growth in median listing price according to the residential real estate listing website, Realtor.com. Table 1: 10 Hottest Housing Markets out of the Top 250 Metro Areas, February 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Last year was a tough one for the Indiana real estate market. Sales from 2022 to 2023 were down 14%,” Mark Fischer, the CEO of the Indiana Realtors Association , said. “We We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September. Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. This is a trend worth watching.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. This is good news for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At least, that’s what the data seems to suggest as inventory grows and new listings decline at a less aggressive rate than last year. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. Inventory creeps up There are now 562,000 single-family homes on the housing market. Don’t have time?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. months nationally.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

million, the equilibrium balance between a buyer and seller marketplace that has been here for four decades. One issue that has created a waterfall dive in purchase application data and sales is that new listing data is declining faster than usual. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mortgage rates have been stubbornly above 7% for two months and it sure looks like home buyers are growing weary. We can see signs that buyers are slowing, both in the sales volume and in the sales price data. This slowdown is not like last year, instead, it’s just slightly fewer buyers each week. We measure the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Existing home sales missed estimates, but the story here has been the same for some time; we have been working from the lowest sales levels since the bottom at the end of 2022, and we can’t grow sales in any meaningful way until rates go lower and stay there. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the biggest questions in real estate right now is how rising interest rates will impact the housing market. The market has been so hot, many worry that rising rates will finally be the catalyst to pop the bubble. Buyers should move quickly during this window of opportunity. There will be a little less competition.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

New listings of starter homes dropped 23% from a year earlier in June, the biggest drop since the start of the pandemic, the report found. Meanwhile, the total number of starter homes on the market is down 15%, also the biggest drop since the start of the pandemic. asking rent is just $24 shy of the $2,053 peak hit in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

There are more homes on the market now than anytime since August 2020. New listings climbed during the past week and there are now 72,000 more single-family homes on the market. It appeared that new listings might be on the decline already, but the pace picked up a tad this week, which is encouraging.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said. Housing markets continued to weaken, with sales and construction declining across [all 12 Federal Reserve] districts,” according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book released on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? Weekly inventory increased by 1,734. I am hoping it’s just a one-week event.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Supply being near all-time lows is one thing, but existing home sales aren’t crashing like they did in 2022. The supply and demand equilibrium changed after November 2022, and that itself has kept prices rising even with existing home sales still trending at the lowest levels ever for the third calender year. million in March.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. in 2022 but will drop to 4% in 2023. trillion in 2022 and $2.3

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Both dynamics are elevated this year: more of the homes on the market have taken price cuts and the slope is pretty steep — meaning more homes each week are cutting prices because they don’t have offers from buyers. In these markets, inventory is growing more rapidly and other costs, such as insurance and taxes, are up a lot.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Unsold inventory was nearly 32% higher than at this time last year and 90% higher compared to the end of April 2022. “The The weekly volume of new listings is now higher than at anytime last year,” Mike Simonsen, founder and president of Altos Research, wrote on Monday.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

“Investor sentiment is positive right now as they haven’t let the macroeconomic environment slow them down,” said Kurt Carlton , co-founder and president of New Western , one of largest real estate investment marketplaces in the U.S. is lacking about 320,000 listings valued at the affordable range for middle-income buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2024

Let’s take a look at the inventory data this year to test this premise, since for many months it has been a working theory of mine that new listings data behavior last year marked a bottom and even going into 2024 we should see more sellers. You can see our debate on this topic here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

As mortgage rates rose starting in 2022, payment affordability got dramatically worse and homebuyer demand dried up. But now sellers are coming back into the market. New listing volume last week was 18% more than a year ago. That’s 60,000 new listings and another 17,000 immediate sales. is $439,900.

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MAY 11, 2024

But since 2022, the spreads between them have gotten worse, meaning mortgage rates are abnormally higher than they should be. However, this year, even though the spreads are still historically bad, they’ve improved over last year, which is a plus for the housing market.

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