Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The housing market in the state of Florida saw higher median home prices, more real estate listings and a higher number of active listings during the month of January, according to data released Thursday by Florida Realtors , a state-based trade organization for real estate professionals.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2024

It’s spring 2024 and we have a Federal Reserve meeting this week. For 2024, the 10-year yield running between 3.80%-4.25% looks perfectly normal to me as long as the economic data is firm and the Fed hasn’t pivoted. This means we will show more than normal inventory growth until we get past tax day 2024. Could this happen again?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. The industry is in a deep housing recession this year. If we get lucky with mortgage rates, though, we might just be at the bottom of the housing market recession right now. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above.

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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

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At as of March 6, 2024. There is nothing to show.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023? Mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2024

I believe we should get more sellers in 2024 than in 2023, but that doesn’t necessarily mean home prices will fall. This is why following the housing market tracker tied to the 10-year yield, mortgage rates, and purchase application data will be as critical as last year to tell you what’s going on in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024? It’s not what I wanted to see in 2024, but I have to be realistic since we are already in February. Weekly housing inventory data One substantial positive story for 2024 is that we have more housing inventory year over year.

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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 (finally) peaks for the year Housing inventory was down by 0.7% Inventory hit 566,000 homes on the market, meaning there are 0.5% Short on time?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last June, the Federal Reserve said it wanted a housing reset , which meant it wanted higher mortgage rates to destroy the housing market. Today, the Federal Reserve achieved its primary goal; the days on the market are now above 30 days, which was the most important data line to get housing back to somewhat normal.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Most economists forecast mortgage rates to decline in 2024, stoking optimism about the housing market. According to the newest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse Survey (MLIV Pulse), the rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage will fall to 5.5% The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets again on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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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. “We In November 2023, this figure actually surpassed its pre-pandemic level at 8,527 listings.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. One issue that has created a waterfall dive in purchase application data and sales is that new listing data is declining faster than usual. Since 2013 I have said that mortgage rates over 5.875% would be problematic to housing.

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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. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. There are now 519,000 single-family homes on the market across the U.S.

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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. But, 2024 is starting stronger than last year. But, 2024 is starting stronger than last year. So the sales rate is already growing for 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Looking ahead, price growth will cool down in the second half of 2024 because of increased inventory and more homes taking a price cut before selling. The chart below shows that the inventory growth rate picked up more in 2024 after March. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

The spring market is awake. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 01/31/24 Joel Wright & Mike Gobbi Event 9am (on Zoom here) 02/01/24 Gateway Event (private) 2/09/24 PCAR WCR Event […] The post The spring housing market is waking up & random stats first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow.

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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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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Pulling comps in 2024 is tough. I also have some market recap visuals to unpack what’s been happening in 2024 so far. UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 2/19/24 Matt the Mortgage Guy YouTube […] The post The challenge of pulling comps in 2024 first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog. Think about it this way.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

“I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. Altos considers anything above a 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2024

As rates were hitting year-to-date highs, the fear was that the Fed would go hawkish in their March meeting, which could push mortgage rates toward 8% and tank 2024 demand. Let’s look at the tracker data to see how mortgage rates are impacting the housing data as we settle into spring. 8% for spring 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Will mortgage rates break toward 8% again, making another 2024 data line that looks like a carbon copy of 2023? It’s not part of my 2024 forecast, but since the Federal Reserve likes playing with fire , let’s look at where we are with mortgage rates and their impact on weekly housing data. Serious mortgage rate talk!

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

housing market saw dramatic changes in affordability as mortgage rates skyrocketed 500 basis points. After an initial rush to get to market in Q2 2022, new listings volume fell precipitously. We can observe this trend in both the count of new listings per week and in the total number of unsold homes on the market.

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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. Here is a look at inventory last week: Weekly inventory change (Feb.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

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. Job additions and income growth will further help with housing affordability, but increased supply will be essential to satisfying all potential demand.”

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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?

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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. After all, more sellers means more sales in 2024. Watch the video above to get the latest housing market update from Altos Research.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2024

I wish new listings were growing faster, but I will call it a victory nonetheless. We saw a slight decline in new listings data week to week. The price-cut percentage growth in 2024 is much slower than in 2022, when rates spiked more aggressively. So, the spreads getting better this year is a positive storyline.

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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

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

MARCH 30, 2024

The best housing story in 2024 is that inventory is growing — both active inventory and new listings. Still, new listing data is a positive story. Still, new listing data is a positive story. However, the markets were closed Friday, so we have to wait and see how trading goes on Monday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Even during the housing bubble crash, the monthly supply data never got to 200,000 homes. To give you some perspective, this amounts to less than two weeks of new listings of existing homes that come on the market. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

year over year in the first quarter of 2024, with the median price hitting a record $1.225 million, according to data from Redfin. Redfin defined luxury homes as those estimated to be in the top 5% of their metro area based on market value, while non-luxury homes are those with estimated values in the 35th to 65th percentile.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a byproduct of the qualified mortgage rule of 2010, which has been a game-changer not only for the housing market but for the overall U.S. However, that hasn’t been the case so far in 2024. NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of March was 1.11 This is never a good thing for housing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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