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Zillow and Redfin partner on new construction listings

Housing Wire

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. New single-family home sales rose 23.8% New single-family home sales rose 23.8%

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Midwest housing markets good for first-time homebuyers: Zillow

Housing Wire

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Millennials comprised 75% of this demographic, with older millennials and Generation X (ages 44 to 58) accounting for 44% and 24% of first-time buyers.

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Indiana’s housing market is primed to bounce back in 2024

Housing Wire

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. in mid-January 2024. as of February 29, 2024.

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Are mortgage rates about to fall?

Housing Wire

This can be partly due to a higher percentage of cash buyers in the sales mix that purchase applicatoins won’t account for. Since November 2023, when mortgage rates started to fall, we have had 12 positive prints versus nine negative prints and two flat prints week-to-week.

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Unsold inventory is rising across the country

Housing Wire

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. New listings climbed during the past week and there are now 72,000 more single-family homes on the market.

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Fed’s Beige Book shows recent moderation in mortgage rates propped up demand for homes

Housing Wire

The spring homebuying season, which got underway a bit earlier than usual, was off to a good start in districts like New York and Dallas. The benchmark rate was last changed in July 2023, when it was raised to a range of 5.25% to 5.5%. Most expect their pipeline of contracts to keep construction busy through the year.

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Pending home sales surged in December: NAR

Housing Wire

The trade organization projects a 13% increase in existing home sales between 2023 and 2024 for an annualized pace of 4.62 The trade group also predicts that rent growth will ease due to sizable growth in apartment construction over the past three years. But new listings activity grew by 9.1% million and a 15.8%

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