Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. As a result, we expect the Q4 2022 GDP print to be a temporary positive blip, and for 2023 headline growth to be negative 0.5 million and 4.57

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. The red-hot housing market of the past 2 ½ years was characterized by sub-three percent mortgage rates, fast-paced bidding wars and record-low inventory.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” ” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!)

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mortgage businesses at Wells Fargo , JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are now only a fraction of what they were in 2022. As a group, the trio originated about $80 billion in mortgages in 2023, down from nearly $218 billion the prior year – a $138 billion decline (63%). The data shows that the bank produced $25.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. So when I talk to loan originators today, I harken back to my early days when fixed mortgage rates were over 14% and there were absolutely no refinances to be had.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Lower mortgage rates helped to increase borrowers’ demand for home loans last week, which in turn drummed up optimism for the mortgage industry at the end of 2022. Economists believe that if the trend continues, the market will be able to improve in the second half of 2023. . ” Uptick in applications . .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mortgage rates are back over 7%. 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. And as demand slows, inventory grows.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. With first-lien mortgages … the trading volumes are down from 2021 and 2022 peak levels.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Housing markets in tech hubs were in high demand during the pandemic, with potential buyers facing fierce competition on homes in cities like San Jose and Austin. But with the tech sector in turmoil, a looming recession, and consistently elevated mortgage rates, that trend is now making an about-face.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Obviously, mortgage rates have been stubbornly over 7% for a couple of months. That’s a change in expectation of mortgage rates. Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. We’re hearing people imagine 8% mortgage rates. What’s happening?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to offering documents.

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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. It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Fannie Mae has a rosy outlook for mortgage rates. The government sponsored enterprise is projecting that rates will drop below 6% by the end of 2024, which in turn will boost refi volumes and help thaw the existing home sales market. million in Q4 2023. million in Q4 2023. trillion in 2023. trillion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

For comparison, the index is benchmarked at a reading of 100 based on 2001 contract activity. The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. million and a 15.8% million units.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2024

Mortgage rates headed higher last week after the CPI inflation report , but now, with news of a wider war in the Middle East, should we expect even higher rates? Some argue that money will go into the safety of the bond market, while others say a wider war can lead to higher inflation and higher rates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The forecast for the housing market in 2023 gets worse by the month, with the latest report predicting a million-plus decline in existing home sales. The latest forecast also projects total mortgage origination activity at $1.6 The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $1.3 million in 2023.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

CoreLogic released its final three-year housing and mortgage outlook report for the year on Thursday, and if numbers hold up, the data company predicts 2021 will maintain its unprecedented sales and record low mortgage rates as the economy continues to recover. On average, CoreLogic predicts mortgage rates to sit closer to 3.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. For agents and sellers looking to succeed in Austin’s current market, Redding says pricing is key. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates have risen recently but they could be much worse than they are today. Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for housing in 2024. The most important data line for me, along with mortgage rates , is jobless claims data because I value labor data over inflation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. I think in 2023, we’re going to see rates higher for longer,” Toohig concludes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

We saw a big jump in mortgage rates last week. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage, according to the HousingWire Mortgage Rates Center , is now over 7.2% — that’s 50 basis points above where we were at the start of the year. At that time, most of the voices in the media assumed that mortgage rates had peaked and would fall by now.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. in 2022 but will drop to 4% in 2023. trillion 2023, down from $4.8

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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. 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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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We may be nearing the bottom in home sales even if mortgage rates don’t decline. As a result, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel in this crazy market cycle. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. This has been a supply-constrained market, and it’s not just a demand thing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. Mortgage rates are at 7.5% In addition to a higher number of new listings, there were also more new contracts started this week than in any week in 2023. housing market at the end of April 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Home sales continue to run just a little ahead of last year’s pace, but with mortgage rates in the 7s, there are a ton of potential homebuyers sitting on the sidelines. All in all, you can see how effectively 7% mortgage rates have slowed the housing market. Higher rates allow unsold homes to accumulate on the market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Forecast Event. 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Homebuilder confidence continued its downward spiral in October, hitting its lowest level since August 2012, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Tuesday. Three other indices monitored by the NAHB also posted declines in October.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Interest rates and inflation continued to dampen activity in the housing market across all 12 Federal Reserve districts, according to the Fed’s latest Beige Book. In the New York and San Francisco districts, potential homebuyers opted to rent instead of purchasing due to elevated prices and higher mortgage rates.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. Inventory (finally) peaks for the year Housing inventory was down by 0.7% There were 58,000 new listings this week, with 10,000 of those homes already under contract as immediate sales. Short on time? from last week.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

New home sales started off 2023 on a positive note, rising 7.2% Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. January marked a surge of people signing contracts to buy new homes. from December to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 670,000 homes, according to data published by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The defining characteristic of the 2023 housing market has been dramatically fewer home sellers than any recent year. The inventory picture There are now 539,000 single-family homes on the market unsold, which is up 3.2% Housing inventory climbed late in the year as mortgage rates rose. is now $420,000.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mortgage rates have been stubbornly above 7% for two months and it sure looks like home buyers are growing weary. It was mid-June when it looked like mortgage rates might continue to ease down but then the opposite happened. Now, that extra little boost of demand seems to be gone from the housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

Mortgage rates ticked down modestly after job openings data for July came out yesterday, but rates remain elevated. Freddie Mac‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.18% as of Aug. 31, down from last week ’s 7.23%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

million existing home sales in 2023, down 6.8% In addition to a further drop in existing home sales, Yun said he expects the annual median home price to remain relatively flat year over year in 2023, rising just 0.3% Fraud risk continues to rise even as the market contracts . from the 5.13 to $384,500.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

Homebuilder confidence and demand for mortgages have increased recently, keeping hopes high for an improved housing market in 2023. But a modest recession is still expected this year, and elevated mortgage rates, coupled with high home prices, will limit housing activity, according to Fannie Mae.

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