Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

The housing starts forecast was revised upward by a larger (though still modest) amount, primarily due to a more positive outlook for near-term single-family starts. in March and have generally trended upward since the fall of 2022. New home sales jumped 9.6% Fannie Mae projected total originations for 2023 to be $1.65

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

It’s the end of May and unsold inventory on the market is increasing across the U.S. Every state in the country has more homes on the market now than a year ago and, in many places, new construction is being completed and added to inventory, so it’s not just resale inventory that’s growing. immediate sales).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

.” Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the NAR , said the dip in contract signings suggests “multiple offers will soon dissipate and be replaced by much calmer and normalized market conditions.”. by the fourth quarter, resulting in a 2022 mortgage rate average of 4.9%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group dropped its projected 2022 real GDP to 1.3%, 0.8 It sees the second quarter of growth rebounding to 1.6%, despite the economy contracting 1.4% million houses in April, down 5.1% The post Fannie Mae reduces projected 2022 GDP to 1.3% in the first quarter.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 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. 2022 marked a unique time for homebuilders. of builders showed profitability with $1 million plus contracts on average. Quality Leads.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

from December 2022 to $382,600 – the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year price increases. Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale. from December 2022 ($366,500). Sales faded 6.2%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This marks the second consecutive month of increases and the strongest sales pace since March 2022. January marked a surge of people signing contracts to buy new homes. The uptick in the sales pace resulted in just 439,000 new homes remaining on the market at the end of the month, representing 7.9 months in December.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite the slight gain, pending contracts remain at historically low levels due to the highest mortgage rates in 20 years,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said in a statement. Compared to 2022, NAR expects the sale of new homes to grow by 4.5% Lastly, they predict that housing starts will drop by 10.4% in 2024, to $445,800.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

As the housing market slowed from its frenzied peak in 2022 due to soaring mortgage rates, homebuilders pulled back. An estimated of 1.533 million housing units were started in 2022, down 3.0% Department of Housing and Urban Development. The single-family housing start rate rose 11.3% year over year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Pending home sales rose for the third month in a row in February, but at 0.8%, the uptick over January was less than is typically seen in the run-up to the spring housing market. Month-over-month, contract signings increased in three U.S. Overall, contract signings were down 21.1% from February 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Looking at the latest NAHB/Wells Fargo homebuilder confidence data and builder stock prices, I can say the homebuilders got very lucky this time around in the middle of a housing recession. They have less competition as they are working from low sales levels in today’s housing market. percent (±15.9 percent (±10.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2021

The National Association of Realtors released encouraging news Thursday about the future of the housing market. The trade group reported that pending home sales – that is homes where a buyer signed a contract, but the sale has not closed – rose 1.9 % index points to 111.3 New residential construction building permits in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Census Bureau released their new residential construction report for April, showing a miss on the estimate and a negative revisions data line, which I believe is lagging behind the current market reality. Housing starts came in at 1.724 million , and housing permits came in at 1.819 million — both are still very healthy numbers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

housing market. And with total active house listings in America near all-time lows, that is all we have for completed units for sale. percent)* above the April 2022 estimate of 611,000. Just like with the existing home sales market, all that is happening is that home sales stabilized from a low level. percent (±11.8

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

So, the author tried to use new construction prices from back in April to describe the whole U.S. housing market now. That’s frankly surprising given how cold the housing market froze last fall. New contracts dipped as affordability is out of reach for so many. This week continues that trend.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

The housing market is in a recession, something that the homebuilders and the National Association of Realtors now agree with me on, as this recent CNBC clip shows. family houses in July 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 511,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. This is 12.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From Census : New Home Sales of new single-family houses in September 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 603,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. months, and below, this is an excellent market for builders.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Still, contacts emphasized that the number of units for sale stayed far short of what they considered a balanced market, and that a dearth of inventories had contributed to faster house price growth from 2022 to 2023. New York: Housing markets strengthened as the spring selling season got underway a bit earlier than normal.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

Homebuilder confidence and demand for mortgages have increased recently, keeping hopes high for an improved housing market in 2023. But a modest recession is still expected this year, and elevated mortgage rates, coupled with high home prices, will limit housing activity, according to Fannie Mae. trillion from the previous year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

January’s pending home sales picked up right where they left off in 2022, posting the second consecutive month of increases, according to data released Monday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. After posting a 2.5% compared to a year ago. in 2023 and 5.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. Chicago’s housing market started out hot in 2022. Department of Agriculture (USDA). during the same time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

We hope that by providing early, proactive, and constructive feedback to FHFA and the GSEs, there will be adequate time to augment the data made available in the planned 3Q 2024 data release as well as in any subsequent data release.” “FHFA was comfortable approving VantageScore 4.0 that use trended credit bureau data.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

homebuilder, housing starts, lumber, builders, builder confidence, construction. Owing to a historic inventory crunch, new construction is playing a more prominent role in the housing inventory landscape in decades. single family homes on the market were new builds, according to a report by Redfin.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Lower mortgage rates helped to increase borrowers’ demand for home loans last week, which in turn drummed up optimism for the mortgage industry at the end of 2022. Economists believe that if the trend continues, the market will be able to improve in the second half of 2023. . million units in 2022, up from 5.67

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This drop marks one full year of declines in builder confidence, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Monday. In December, builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes fell two points compared to November.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The recovery has not taken place, but the housing recession is over,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. The presence of multiple offers implies that housing demand is not being satisfied due to lack of supply. Meanwhile, housing starts are forecast drop 5.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

“Mortgage rates continued to drift down as markets concur with the view that inflation increases are temporary,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s Chief Economist. Fannie Mae ‘s economic and strategic group mirrored a similar outlook on inflation’s transitory effects on both mortgage rates and the housing market.

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Empire Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Housing Market Collapse? Housing Market Collapse? The housing market has taken a few hits, such as a doubling of mortgage rates in 2022, but it remains solid even if legitimate news providers suggest doom and gloom. housing market is suffering some cracks, but an outright collapse is nowhere in sight.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A lot of the housing data was lagging the rate move, so it wasn’t apparent that higher rates impacted the data yet. Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. Except now, we have had massive price gains in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

once we get out to 2022, but we are expecting mortgage rates over the next three years to be far less than they’ve been in the last decade.”. There are a little over 20 million home mortgages outstanding, with a contract interest rate of 4% or higher still in the United States,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

What we see in this latest starts report is encouraging, as a record number of 5-units are still in construction and anything that gets finished is positive against inflation. As you can see, the 1974 recession destroyed the 5-unit construction production. percent)* above the February 2022 rate of 1,380,000. This is 12.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

Consumers’ concerns about housing affordability are squeezing would-be homebuyers out of the market, according to Fannie Mae ‘ s Home Purchasing Sentiment Index , which tracks the housing market and consumer confidence to sell or buy a home. The index score dropped by 0.3 points to 68.2

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The fast decline in home sales that occurred in 2022 is unlikely to be repeated this year, but Fannie Mae expects the pace of existing sales to remain soft, totaling around 4.1 Fundamentally, there continues to be an elevated number of homes under construction or completed that are for sale relative to the recent sales pace.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

For the first time since November 2022, pending home sales fell in March, posting a 5.2% An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. In the new construction sector , NAR predicts sales to increase 4.5% The monthly drop resulted in the Pending Home Sales Index recording a reading of 78.9, year over year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

“In order to achieve a soft landing, economic growth will have to slow to a rate that is below trend for some time in order for the unemployment rate to rise sufficiently to cause wage growth to slow consistent with a 2% inflation target over the long term, but not so slow that the economy falls into a contraction,” the ESR group said.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 10, 2023

Each month, this blog will publish a fresh assessment of the King County area housing market. A patch of foul weather and persistent economic challenges chilled an already cold housing market. The Northwest MLS monthly housing report described it best: “December ends with a ‘whimper’.”. from the year before.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s fair to say that 2022 has been a depressing year for homebuilders. After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders.

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