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Unsold inventory is rising across the country

Housing Wire

New listings climbed during the past week and there are now 72,000 more single-family homes on the market. It appeared that new listings might be on the decline already, but the pace picked up a tad this week, which is encouraging. No one wants a scenario in which there’s a flood of sellers but no buyers.

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Expect the growth rate of existing home prices to cool down this year

Housing Wire

As you can see below, even though home prices rose in 2023, the median sales price showed negative year-over-year growth in April, May and June of last year. As you can see above, starting in September of 2023, we saw steady year-over-year price growth increases in the data, making the year-over-year price comps harder this year.

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Real estate momentum slows as interest rates rise again: Altos

Housing Wire

Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. Our immediate sales metric of homes that get offers within a couple days of listing also slowed. New listings and new contracts both still show a bit of improvement over 2023, but the growth rates have slid back down.

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Peak homebuying season is clouded by mixed signals

Housing Wire

If you need to communicate about the real estate market with buyers and sellers, you should join us. It’s the peak season for buyers and sellers. Inventory in 2023 didn’t really accelerate until mortgage rates approached 8% in the fall. That’s actually 3% fewer new listings than last week. That’s up 1.5%

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The 2023 housing market is at odds with itself

Housing Wire

On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. The number of new listings coming on the market this spring is lower than it has been in more than a decade. Sales and new pending contracts are below pre-pandemic levels.

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Where are home prices headed this spring?

Housing Wire

I like to point out that consumers are more sensitive to changes in mortgage rates than to the absolute levels, and since rates are now basically unchanged for the month, just easing down from the early March peak of 7.2%, sellers and buyers are tip-toeing back into the market. In total, new listings data is 14% more than last year.

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Will home sales finally start to grow? Data shows glimmers ahead

Housing Wire

At least, that’s what the data seems to suggest as inventory grows and new listings decline at a less aggressive rate than last year. New listings decline isn’t as steep as a year ago There were only 53,000 new listings (single-family homes) unsold this week, plus 10,000 more new listings that are already in contract.