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. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

There are more homes on the market now than anytime since August 2020. 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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. Inventory creeps up There are now 562,000 single-family homes on the housing market. Don’t have time?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You also know that new listings are up over last year, too. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. Inventory hit 566,000 homes on the market, meaning there are 0.5% New listings volume is up, too. A few more sellers appear to be braving the market each week.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

All in all, you can see how effectively 7% mortgage rates have slowed the housing market. This is a much different market now. Inventory in 2023 didn’t really accelerate until mortgage rates approached 8% in the fall. Higher rates allow unsold homes to accumulate on the market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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 “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. This is a trend worth watching.

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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. But new listings activity grew by 9.1%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The weekly volume of new listings is now higher than at anytime last year. It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. In addition to a higher number of new listings, there were also more new contracts started this week than in any week in 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It looks like this is evidence that housing markets are returning to normal rather than a case of sellers panicking, but it’s worth keeping an eye on. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research. This week, the available inventory of unsold single-family homes crept up minimally.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

The weekly volume of new listings is now higher than at anytime last year,” Mike Simonsen, founder and president of Altos Research, wrote on Monday. 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 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 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. That’s down 8.5%

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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. housing market for the week of April 22. New listings Growing inventory is not just about slowing demand. In fact, there are more new sellers this week than in any week of 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

New listings Each week this spring we’ve been tracking the new listings volume. Last week we saw just over 60,000 new listings added to the inventory with another 17,000 new listings / immediate sales. In total, new listings data is 14% more than last year. A year with 5.5

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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. This week saw 60,000 new contracts started for single family home purchases.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2024

Inventory bottomed out on April 14 last year, which was the longest time it took for the housing market to find a seasonal bottom ever. I am a big fan of the inventory growing year over year based on new listing data, and this is a big plus for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

As mortgage rates stay elevated and the number of unsold homes on the market grows — especially in the South — the leading indicators for future home sales prices continue to be softer than the current headlines suggest. But keep in mind that May 2023 was the weakest comparison point in sales pricing. This year is almost the opposite.

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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 16, 2024

real estate housing market signals have been gradually building for a couple of months. Home sellers are starting to ease back into the market, new listings are finally exceeding the levels of a year ago. As a result, we’re starting to see slightly more available supply of homes on the market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Now, that extra little boost of demand seems to be gone from the housing market. We measure the housing market. If we look at the transaction rate each week — the total number of new contracts for homes — you can see that in the first half of the year, the pace of sales was steadily returning to normal.

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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. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates rose 15%. homeowners insurance policy was roughly $1,700 in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Although I don’t have any capacity to predict interest rates, I do know what happens to the housing market if rates rise or fall from here. New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market. It was not that long ago that we had 70,000 or 80,000 new listings each week in March.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said. Housing markets continued to weaken, with sales and construction declining across [all 12 Federal Reserve] districts,” according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book released on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

New listings New listings appear to have peaked for the year three weeks ago. There were just under 68,000 new listings unsold this week. In 2022, new listings kept growing until July as buyers and sellers were trying to get their deals done. New listings volume fell off a cliff in July 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates were lower in late 2022 and early 2023 with a higher inflation growth rate and the Fed still hiking because the bond market anticipated a Fed pivot or a recession, neither of which happened. As mortgage rates rise, there is weakness in demand and homes don’t go into contract immediately.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Home prices recovered in 2023 very quickly though. New listings Inventory growth is from a combination of fewer buyers as affordability worsens, but also gradually improving seller volume. New listings Inventory growth is from a combination of fewer buyers as affordability worsens, but also gradually improving seller volume.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The leading indicators for sales prices show that 2023 will end with home price gains of 1-2% over 2022, but the 2024 outlook is weakening and depends on your view of mortgage rates in Q1 and whether home prices will appreciate next year. There were only 57,000 new listings plus another 10,000 immediate sales.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. Outside of that time period, everything else from 1982 to 2023 was normal. If you believe people sell to become homeless, then you’re in the group of people that have simply not read housing data for decades.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

New listings To watch whether supply and demand might get out of balance with higher mortgage rates, keep an eye on the new listings volume this spring, not just the total inventory. There were 59,000 new listings unsold this week. That’s 15% growth over the pace of 2023. Last week, 30.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Each week, there are more new listings than a year ago, allowing inventory to build and eventually leading to more home sales this year than last. The housing market data has been changing very rapidly this year. Inventory There are now 498,000 single-family homes available unsold on the market around the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

It happened in 2008 and then didn’t happen again until 2023. Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale. Whenever the days on the market fall to a teenager level, nothing good happens in housing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This is a demand-driven slowdown, because new listings supply is still running 9% to 10% fewer homes for sale each week than this time last year. We’re seeing fewer new sellers each week, but inventory is building as homebuyers wait to see if mortgage rates will come down to make purchases more affordable. from last week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Compare that to this year’s curve and you can see how we’ll end 2023 with probably 20% fewer homes on the market than there were in 2022. It was at this point in 2022 when new listings started plummeting each week. In September, even though new sellers were few, buyers were even fewer, so inventory rose.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

So, the author tried to use new construction prices from back in April to describe the whole U.S. housing market now. That’s frankly surprising given how cold the housing market froze last fall. There are no signs of any surge in listings, and as a result we’ve seen a floor on home prices.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

home prices continued their rally in September 2023,” Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P DJI , said in a statement.“Our in September, marking eight consecutive monthly gains since prices bottomed in January 2023. Simultaneously, new listing volume is up at the end of November, which might cool home prices down.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Supply of homes on the market does not appear to have reached the peak for 2023. Last year at this time, inventory appeared to have already peaked, but the number of homes on the market jumped again along with mortgage rates later in September. There are only 358,000 single family homes in contract pending now.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

The Beige Book is published two weeks before each meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee. The benchmark rate was last changed in July 2023, when it was raised to a range of 5.25% to 5.5%. New York: Housing markets strengthened as the spring selling season got underway a bit earlier than normal.

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