Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2024

Mortgage rates and the bond market have fallen a bit recently and the spreads between the 10-year yield and 30-year mortgage rate have improved over last year’s levels. In the past two years, demand has always picked up whenever mortgage rates have moved lower with some duration.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Thanks to a boom in the housing market and a historic refinance market, the past two years have been a favorable period for the mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 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.

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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. However, growth began to slow drastically in the second quarter of 2022 as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to combat inflation. in Q4 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2023

Mortgage rates were near 7% last week but purchase applications were still able to pull out an 8% week-to-week gain. Active housing inventory grew while new listing data fell. Mortgage rates hardly budged last week, even with the Federal Reserve ‘s announcement it was pausing rate hikes and CPI inflation reports.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. below the September 2022 rate of 1,463,000. However, permits for future construction recorded a 4.4% Indeed, privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,473,000, down from 1,541,000 in August.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New home sales have been one of the brighter housing stories since the home sales crash in 2022 — as we can see in the chart below, new home sales have been able to grow since then. This is one reason why the homebuilder stocks have done so well since November of 2022. months, as we can see in the chart below.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. Housing permits and starts are falling now, even with the backlog of homes in the system. With less transaction volume , general incomes in the housing sector are falling.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The labor market started off in 2023 with a bang, which could mean trouble for the housing market as the Federal Reserve continues to try and bring inflation under control this year. In comparison, the job market gained an average of 401,000 jobs per month in 2022. in March 2022 to 4.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. Both pose threats to access to capital, the cost of materials and labor, and future housing values. Riding a cresting wave.

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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 Since hitting a low point in January, Indiana’s Market Action Index score has been on the rise, hitting a 90-day average of 42.32 as of February 29, 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Despite several rate hikes throughout the second half of 2022, the labor market finished the year strong. And that could spell trouble for the housing market in 2023 as the Federal Reserve looks to bring inflation down through aggressive interest rate hikes. million jobs in 2022, compared to 6.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Logan Mohtashami: Supply has gotten worse and worse this year, every single week in 2022 on a year-over-year basis. This was the last thing we needed to see for the Housing Market , which went from unhealthy to savagely unhealthy. Housing peaked in 2005 and then declined for many years. Have more questions for Logan?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Economists at Fannie Mae say the Federal Reserve ‘s fiscal policy is having its desired effect on the housing market – home price growth began to slow in the summer, and the GSE says the housing slowdown will continue through 2023. The latest forecast also projects total mortgage origination activity at $2.44

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2021

The gains were so great that some housing industry economists believe construction job gains could relieve housing market supply constraints. could return to the pre-COVID employment peak by February 2022 – the same year some economists predict the housing market could regain its inventory footing.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. economic recovery was a false story and that we were about to embark on a second housing bubble crash due to forbearance. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. What a year 2021 has been.

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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. in 2022 but will drop to 4% in 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. in June from a year ago while the market saw 28% fewer new listings added during the same period.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%). in events to garner business. were from the Northeast 16.3%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Housing starts rose in November, significantly beating expectations. New construction rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,560,000, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. above the November 2022 rate of 1,427,000. But permits for future construction fell 2.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said. However, housing affordability worsened.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

While this is up from a record low of 7,336 listings set in late April 2022, it is still well below the 29,951 listings in early May 2019, about a year prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have so much new construction happening. This influx of new residents is driving up demand for housing.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

This is one reason I raised my fifth recession red flag for Housing on June 16, 2022 as I saw that higher mortgage rates would impact new home sales and housing permits. 9, 2022, not only helped the housing market build more homes, but it also boosted the U.S. Now, on to the report. percent (±24.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. A silver lining is that we are expecting both 2022 and 2023 to be record years for purchase originations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

However, we need to keep an eye on the housing construction data in this report because it has huge implications for the economic cycle, our recession risk and mortgage rates. As the chart below shows, the housing sector generally poses a future risk to labor if the single-family permits data continues to decline.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

The best way to fight inflation and get lower mortgage rates is to get more apartment units finished, and so far, this has been slower than my tortoise Grundy. One of the most frustrating data lines since COVID-19 has been housing completion data. percent)* above the April 2022 rate of 1,361,000. Why is this the case?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

What is the best news for mortgage rates long-term? Housing inflation post-2020 was one for the record books, not only because home prices accelerated in such a short time, but more importantly for the inflation data, rents took off, something that didn’t happen during the housing bubble years. percent (±13.3 percent (±18.6

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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. Of course, that’s until you look at the housing completion data, which hasn’t gone anywhere in years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

housing market this year? If we stick to the facts, however, we can glean a few important take-homes as to what risks the housing market faces for 2021 and beyond. If we stick to the facts, however, we can glean a few important take-homes as to what risks the housing market faces for 2021 and beyond.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2022

A total of 431,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added in March, and employment in the construction industry is now above its pre-pandemic level, after the industry added 19,000 jobs. If monthly gains continue at the March pace, we could return to the pre-COVID employment peak by July 2022.”. The unemployment rate dropped 0.2 a year ago.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Homebuilders are also pacing the number of homes they bring to market. Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The rate of homes under construction has roughly plateaued since April 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Mortgage rates rising to 8% in October impacted the data line, which I spoke about on CNBC recently. We did have three negative revisions, which ran with the period when mortgage rates rose to 8%. percent)* above the November 2022 estimate of 582,000. months , the builders will pause construction. This is 12.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Interest rates and inflation continued to dampen activity in the housing market across all 12 Federal Reserve districts, according to the Fed’s latest Beige Book. In the New York and San Francisco districts, potential homebuyers opted to rent instead of purchasing due to elevated prices and higher mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

David Meyer is thankful that his business is still plugging along during the wildest housing market in decades. With mortgage rates hovering around 7% and home prices still at record highs, buyers across America are calling off the house hunt and finding multifamily apartments. . It could be a while.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, Alabama’s population grew by 34,000 people, according to estimates published by the U.S. Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. New construction is backed up,” she said. We’ve got beaches.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

In this HW+ Slack Q&A , Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami gives the inside scoop on where rates are headed, whether or not he has updates to his 2022 forecast and more. HousingWire: To begin, how has your 2022 forecast changed so far? HousingWire: How will rising rates affect new home construction? What has remained the same?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Housing affordability hit a record low in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index released Thursday. The all-time high of $390,000 was set in the second quarter of 2022. In the fourth quarter, just 38.1% median income of $90,000.

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