Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The savagely unhealthy housing market continues to unfold as we approach Halloween. Sales are still falling, home prices keep rising, and inventory is still negative year over year. Too many people chasing too few goods — and days on the market are still under 30 days. million in September 2022). The core problem?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. million in November 2022) Here are some charts from today’s report: So is this a repeat of last year? from November 2022 ($372,700).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to Zillow ’s annual predictions, Indianapolis will be the fourth-hottest real estate market of 2024, thanks to its solid economy, housing inventory, affordability and pent-up demand. The real estate market As of Jan. The top three spots in the ranking were Buffalo, New York, and Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. If we had a massive credit boom-to-bust, inventory would have skyrocketed in 2022.

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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. From 2020 until the middle of 2022, the Austin metro area was turning heads for its massive influx of homebuyers and its exponential home price growth.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At Altos considers any score above 30 to be a seller’s market.

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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.” According to Altos Research, as of Feb. 23, 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. The real story in housing has been the price boom that we have seen since 2020. Inventory is always seasonal.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. But we have a housing shortage, right? One of my big calls in the previous expansion was that we wouldn’t see housing starts begin a year with 1.5 Wait, what?

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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. trillion in 2022. The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $2.17

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Meanwhile, the available inventory of unsold homes is growing. This week, inventory grew faster than it did last year at this time. This is alarming because this was the moment last year when the market turned south. Last year, inventory climbed dramatically for months. This is a trend worth watching. What’s happening?

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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. million, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released Friday. million existing homes were sold in 2022, down 17.8% After posting a 6.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. But we have a housing shortage, right? One of my big calls in the previous expansion was that we wouldn’t see housing starts begin a year with 1.5 Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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? Normally by this point in September, available inventory is declining slightly each week.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 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. Demographics still point towards a market with strong demand – the largest cohort of millennials, the largest generation in U.S. To register for the HW+ event, go here.

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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. In other words, if there were more inventory, we would have more sales happening.” through the first quarter of 2024.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. From NAR : The median existing home price for all housing types in March was $393,500, an increase of 4.8% All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While sales are still tracking below last year’s levels, the gap between 2022 and 2023 has narrowed considerably. million, according to the National Association of Realtors. Compared to November 2022, existing home sales retreated 7.3%, down from 4.12 Housing inventory fell 1.7% months in November 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A recent article, “Stop subsidizing Wall Street buying up homes,” perpetuates an uninformed stereotype of single-family rental home companies while revealing a serious neglect for the important contributions industry firms bring to today’s housing market. of the nation’s total housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. New York City, New York In many ways the spring of 2022 marked the full return of New York City and for a real estate agent like Johnson Tsai, a lead agent at REAL, this meant a massive up-tick in rental demand. “We

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

We all needed some rest from the crazy housing market we’ve experienced in recent years. Like most markets across the country, the Cleveland area housing market has been red hot for the past few years. How have the rapidly increasing mortgage interest rates impacted the housing market in Northeast Ohio?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The housing market in the state of Florida saw higher median home prices, more real estate listings and a higher number of active listings during the month of January, according to data released Thursday by Florida Realtors , a state-based trade organization for real estate professionals. from the same time last year. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. enters the third year of the pandemic, the 2022 housing market remains on stable ground. While interest rates are projected to rise in 2022 to 3.5%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

neighborhood, housing market, Fall, homes, new house sales, forbearance. The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market is continuing as we get closer to August. But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The downshift in buyer behavior at the foreclosure auction came two months before the downshift showed up in retail housing market data.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

in September despite significant affordability hurdles weighing on the market, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Furthermore, inventory remains tight, which hinders sales but keeps home prices elevated.” Compared to 2022, NAR expects the sale of new homes to grow by 4.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2022 has been filled with discussions on homeownership affordability challenges for good reason. The challenges buyers face today are significant: higher interest rates, higher home prices, historically low inventory, increasing costs for labor and materials and supply chain challenges. increase from May 2021 to May 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This article is part of our 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. Today, the average is 2.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that it had 1,509,195 members at the end of April, a decline of 2.96% from the 1,554,604 members it had at the end of 2023 but higher than its numbers in February and March. million in October 2022 before gradually declining. Realtors who have paid their membership dues by Jan.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The housing market continues to cool amid high mortgage rates , affordability challenges and still-low inventory. million, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Despite a sharp drop in home sales compared to August 2022, the median existing-home sales price rose 3.9%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

For the fifth consecutive month, pending home sales declined in March from February, down 1.2%, signaling a potential return to “much calmer” conditions, according to the National Association of Realtors. by the fourth quarter, resulting in a 2022 mortgage rate average of 4.9%. The average mortgage rate should jump to 5.4%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

When mortgage rates headed lower at the end of 2022 into 2023, we had 12 weeks of positive weekly purchase application data. From the National Association of Realtors : Total existing-home sales – completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – bounced 9.5% million in February.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

You think things are bad in the housing market now? Even the most battle-tested industry players are preparing for one of the strongest housing market corrections in decades. Probably, the housing market needs to go to a correction to get to that place.” trillion in 2022 and $2.17

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