Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

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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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Sellers have been sitting out of the housing market, and it’s made a massive difference in 2023 so far. Today I want to show what’s happening with new listings and talk about concessions. I hope this is useful, whether you’re local or not. Scroll by topic or digest slowly.

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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 Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings. Days on market is also trending back to what is more normal for our market as well.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Based on the trends we can see after the start of the year, I’ll project 2024 will see about 15% home sales growth over 2023. These are very clear trends as we start the new year. 2023 started with recovery, but slowed down in Q3 as mortgage rates hit 8%. Could the housing market change and slow again in 2024?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? Still, we have some promising signs that we might have finally hit the inventory bottom for 2023. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listings rose by 8,546 , and new listing data showed some growth.

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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 top three spots in the ranking were Buffalo, New York, and Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. The real estate market As of Jan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listing rose 8,260 week to week, down a bit from last week’s gain, but I’m not complaining — anything on the plus side is positive.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2023

Debt-ceiling drama pushed bond yields up last week, taking mortgage rates to a new 2023 high in the middle of the spring home-selling season. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,914 week to week, even though new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023.

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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.” Data from Altos Research backs up Fischer’s observations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

It’s the end of May and unsold inventory on the market is increasing across the U.S. 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. Let’s look at the details of the U.S.

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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. The market is still strong,” said Wendy Cash, a broker at Austin area-based Century 21 Hellmann Stribling. “The Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. New listing data was trending at all-time lows in 2021 abd 2022 and now it’s creating a new all-time low trend in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The suspicion was that there were a bunch of sellers who were waiting to sell: Once rates fell these sellers would come rushing back to this real estate market and we’d finally see inventory grow. Inventory stats Looking at last week’s numbers: There are now just over 500,000 single family homes on the market in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

hits peak homebuying season, the signals across the country are mixed at best as some markets are accelerating while others are slowing quickly. All in all, you can see how effectively 7% mortgage rates have slowed the housing market. If you need to communicate about the real estate market with buyers and sellers, you should join us.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. But beyond first-timers, we’ll show you how to attract real estate buyers of all kinds through a multi-tiered marketing approach that boosts both your visibility and credibility with potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

For several weeks, I’ve been reporting data that shows the housing market growing in 2024. 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. Just 31.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

There are more homes sitting on the market that didn’t get offers at their original list price and have had to reduce their prices than in any recent May. This is the percent of the homes on the market that have taken a price cut from the original list price. of the homes on the market have taken a price cut.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

However, the real positive story here is that even with new listing data trending at an all-time low, we are getting the growth in active listings we traditionally see in the spring and summer. In addition, new listing data turned negative year over year after the second half of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

We have often discussed that the housing market dynamics changed starting Nov. As you can see in the chart below, 2023 inventory growth is very slow compared to 2022. The other big story with housing inventory is that new listing data has been trending negative year over year since the end of June 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

The Fed met last week and we escaped dramatic changes in the markets. There are now 513,000 single family homes unsold on the market. We’ll finish the year with over 600,000 homes on the market unless rates reverse and fall quickly. We currently have 24% more homes on the market than a year ago. Now it’s on the rise.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

“Investor sentiment is positive right now as they haven’t let the macroeconomic environment slow them down,” said Kurt Carlton , co-founder and president of New Western , one of largest real estate investment marketplaces in the U.S. is lacking about 320,000 listings valued at the affordable range for middle-income buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Mortgage rates inched higher last week ahead of the Federal Reserve ’s Federal Open Markets Committee on Wednesday and the national jobs report on Friday. As of April 26, there were 556,000 single-family homes on the market, up 2.4% About 13,000 additional properties were added to the market during the previous week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. Active inventory fell 1,109, and new listing data made a lovely comeback week to week but was still noticeably down year over year. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is alarming because this was the moment last year when the market turned south. It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September. Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. This is a trend worth watching. What’s happening?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. A traditional seller is a conventional buyer most of the time.

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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. To see mortgage rates drop and stay lower, the bond market needs to know the labor market is getting softer. That’s a 0.50% difference in rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The housing market is heating up as the spring buying season approaches. Well-priced homes are selling fast, often within 29 days, and that time frame is bound to shorten as the shopping season opens, according to Zillow ’s January market report. In January, one in five houses listed on Zillow included a price cut.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Armed with data from HousingWire sister company Altos Research , we can see in minute detail how the housing market responded to the recent 7%-and-higher rate environment and what the market may see again soon. This is clear in the chart below, which shows the year-over-year percent change in the four-week average of new listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Lower mortgage rates tend to take housing supply off the market and demand has been picking up lately as rates have fallen. Instead, let’s look at the future: If the 10-year yield can break under 4.34% with some kick from bond buyers, we have an excellent shot at getting under 7%. Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2024

Let’s take a look at the inventory data this year to test this premise, since for many months it has been a working theory of mine that new listings data behavior last year marked a bottom and even going into 2024 we should see more sellers. You can see our debate on this topic here.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The average cost of a policy increased 40% in 2023 alone, according to a report by Redfin. Before the new law was enforced, many condo associations were investing their reserves in government-insured instruments, sacrificing their liquidity to generate a return. It’s causing buyers to rethink their plans.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As a result, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel in this crazy market cycle. 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. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. Don’t have time? That’s up 1.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

After a couple weeks of big jumps for mortgage rates , we’re still seeing relatively surprising strength in the housing market. More home sales are happening, but we can also see — once adjusted for seasonal patterns — that sales should be much higher now if a real market recovery were underway.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2023

This happened even with higher home prices and higher mortgage rates in 2023. Naturally, some people thought home prices would crash in 2023 as many market players said prices always follow volume. What happened between June 2022 to June 2023 can be confusing, so if you need more clarity I suggest listening to this podcast.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Even as money is more expensive and there are more sellers than a year ago, we can also see slight home sales growth over 2023. Dramatically few home sales was the story of 2023. The housing market data has been changing very rapidly this year. Inventory is back at 2019 levels in many of these markets.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

With the Easter holiday last week, data for housing inventory , new listings and the pace of new contracts started all took a breather from their growth pace. Here’s how 2024 is shaping up: There are now more listings, more active inventory and more sales than a year ago. Inventory will climb again with this week’s data.

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