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. NAR lists the current inventory at 1.22 This is not a positive for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index helps to dispel many of the myths and cut through the noise of what is currently happening in the market. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market. All cash buyers now stand at 24%.

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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. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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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

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% Meanwhile, unsold inventory sat at a 3.5-month

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

million, according to the N ational Association of Realtors. Compared to October 2022, existing home sales slumped 14.6%, down from 4.44 On the bright side, housing inventory rose 1.8% lower than October 2022 when inventory was at 1.22 Meanwhile, unsold inventory sat at a 3.6-month months in October 2022.

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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. ” Closed sales of single-family homes grew 0.6%

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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% As the U.S. Demographics.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, a time of turbulence in the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). He also expects more sellers to enter the market, as they adapt to prolonged higher rates.

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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. Supply being near all-time lows is one thing, but existing home sales aren’t crashing like they did in 2022. All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. offers, according NAR’s REALTORS® Confidence Index.

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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 market in Indianapolis is very cyclical,” Carrie Holle, Realtor and principal of the Carrie Holle Group with Compass , told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 This level is still within my 2022 forecast sales range between 5.74 million and I am looking for more of the same in 2022, at the 5.74 NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Homebuyers’ median household income increased by $19,000 this year from 2022, reaching $107,000, according to the National Association of Realtors ’ 2023 Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers. The report is an annual survey of homebuyers and sellers who closed transactions between July 2022 and June 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. The inventory put a cap on how much business Marquis’ team can do, which is one of the reasons why Marquis is now licensed in 22 states. In our market here in Boston, we have incredibly low inventory.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

million homeowners added between 2012 and 2022. According to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) titled “A Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America,” Asian and Hispanic Americans achieved historic heights in homeownership rates in 2022 of 63.3% and 51.1%, respectively. The overall U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Last week, the National Association of Realtors released their December pending sales data. The headline was an impressive 8% jump over December of 2022. As the year progressed, most of 2023 saw 20-30% fewer home sales than 2022. That’s the active inventory across the country. Home sales were very very slow last year.

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lusky, DigitalVision, Getty Images Source: [link] FSBO Sellers Regret Not Having an Agent By Melissa Dittmann Tracey Survey: Sellers who go-it alone are twice as likely to be unsatisfied with the experience – and more likely to say their earlier opinion, “agents are overpaid,” was wrong.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Altos considers anything above a 30 to be a seller’s market. Cincinnati is a great place to live,” said Julie Back , the executive sales vice president of Sibcy Cline Realtors. I think a lot of it has to do with there are just fewer houses available,” said Mark Meinhardt, a senior vice president at Sibcy Cline Realtors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

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. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Once total inventory levels reach 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. From the National Association of Realtors (NAR): Total existing-home sales – completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – elevated 0.8% from November 2022 ($372,700). million in November.

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Empire Appraisal Group

DECEMBER 14, 2023

1 in 3 Sellers Granting Buyer Concessions By Kerry Smith Two Fla. SEATTLE – Home sellers gave concessions to buyers in 35% of U.S. Orlando came closest to the national numbers in 2023 and 2022, and while Miami saw a decline in concessions, it was on par with national ones. in 2022 Orlando : 34.3% in 2022 Tampa : 43.1%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

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.” Both buyers and sellers are coming back to the market,” Fischer said. According to Altos Research, as of Feb. 23, 2024.

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Empire Appraisal Group

MARCH 16, 2023

NEWS & MEDIA sorbetto / Getty Images Source: Hard Convincing Sellers Not to Overprice? Use Data | Florida Realtors Hard Convincing Sellers Not to Overprice? Use Data By Jennifer Warner Florida Realtors economist : Many sellers today plan to overprice their home, but overpricing isn’t new. ORLANDO, Fla.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling. 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. By late May 2022, this figure had risen to $650,000, according to data from Altos Research.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

In March, first-time buyers were responsible for 32% of sales, up from 26% in February and 28% a year prior, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. In addition to making buyers more prudent in their purchases, local real estate professionals also say interest rates are to blame for the area’s lack of inventory.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The three categories I’ll cover will be the weekly purchase application data, the Altos Research weekly inventory data , and what the bond market/ mortgage rates did recently. Housing market inventory. Altos Research data shows that the weekly inventory fell from 521,957 to 507,934 last week. Bond market and mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

In a shrinking mortgage market, fee pressures are the main challenge for appraisers, according to a new survey from the National Association of Realtors. Fee pressure was followed by appraisal management company (AMC) requests for revisions (28%) and technology fees (26%), a category that was not included in 2022 survey responses.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

With elevated mortgage rates sidelining both home buyers and sellers, existing home sales fell in June, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). million in June 2022. The pent-up demand will surely be realized soon, especially if mortgage rates and inventory move favorably.”

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2024? From low inventory levels to increasing mortgage rates , the real estate landscape has experienced a multitude of changes and challenges over the last several years, leaving many sellers wondering when the “right” time to list would be given current market conditions.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 17, 2022

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2022? A lot of people are wondering about how the current situation impacts otherwise normal questions about inventory and when the right time would be to list. Inventory started low in 2020, and then dropped even lower in March 2020 during the stay-at-home mandates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. I hadn’t developed a network for mortgage lending with Realtors,” Woodward said about his work at Interfirst in Indiana. of UWM’s mix in 2021, and company executives expect that number to grow in 2022 as rates climb.

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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 week was the biggest week of inventory increase all year, with inventory growing by over 9,000 single-family homes. Last year, inventory climbed dramatically for months.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, housing professionals hope for relief from the high mortgage rates, terrible inventory levels and slow sales that characterized the year. The average of expectations from Fannie Mae , Redfin , the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and Wells Fargo were: Q1: 7.28% Q2: 6.9%

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Last week the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales declined in June to an annual rate of 4.2 The rate isn’t accelerating, but the comparison with 2022 is now getting easier. In June, NAR reported that the existing home sales rate was 18% lower than 2022 at the same time. million for the year.

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