Remove articles existing-home-sales-fall-due-to-lack-of-housing-inventory
article thumbnail

Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. This is happening, and in the long run, this is a plus for the housing market.

Inventory 464
article thumbnail

Pending home sales shock 2021 housing crash bears

Housing Wire

Today, pending home sales came in as a big beat of estimates — up 7.5% in October — and since we are days away from December, we can officially label the 2021 housing crash bears as even worse than the 2020 housing crash bears. Home sales had a big gap from trending sales to where total sales closed in 2020.

Inventory 528
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

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. Home price s. for 2022. in total for the year.

article thumbnail

Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time.

Inventory 496
article thumbnail

Existing home sales now outperforming

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report for October came in at a solid beat of estimates at 6.34 This number is above my trend sales peak of 6.2 million and that means we have had back-to-back existing home sales prints of over 6.2 million and 6.2 million and 6.2

Inventory 505
article thumbnail

Is There a Market Correction on Its Way?

McKissock

I have no idea, but there will be warning signs, and that’s what this blog article is about. Additional indicators can be some of the factors that led up to the last market bust; there are plenty of articles online with which to familiarize yourself. Of course there is. ” When will the market correction arrive?

article thumbnail

Logan Mohtashami: The 2022 housing forecast

Housing Wire

Even in the extreme conditions of COVID-19, my general premise on housing economics predicted that the two variables with the most influence — demographics and mortgage rates — would hold up the housing market. Most of the time, the economy is like a slow-moving ocean liner that changes direction gradually and without much effort.