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. In the past two years, demand has always picked up whenever mortgage rates have moved lower with some duration. That’s a 0.50% difference in rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

If there’s one sector of the economy that benefits from the very low levels of total housing inventory , it’s the homebuilders , but for a reason you might not think. If national housing inventory were back to normal, we would have 2 to 2.5 The builders will pull back on construction when the supply is 6.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We being outbound. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. In Birmingham, ERA King Real Estate agent Anna-Maria Ellison said that even without lower mortgage rates, she is seeing buyers return to the market. “It New construction is backed up,” she said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Moderation in mortgage rates led to a pickup in demand for residential real estate, but limited inventories across the country hindered actual home sales , the Federal Reserve reported in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts that was published Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. It benefits home builders by expanding their reach to additional home buyers,” Gehrett added.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

As the housing market slowed from its frenzied peak in 2022 due to soaring mortgage rates, homebuilders pulled back. During the second half of 2022, the pace of new single-family housing starts decelerated quickly as mortgage rates escalated. Builders watched inventories rise as buyers canceled contracts and new orders dried up.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

Demand for newly built homes has been strong amidst the historically low inventory of existing homes for sale ,” Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement. However, experts note that the existing home inventory trough won’t last forever. In April, the sales pace of new homes rose 4.1%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mortgage rates continued to trend up this week and dampen homebuyer momentum. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.94% as of Feb. 29, an increase from last week ’s figure of 6.90%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

For what felt like a moment in time, buyers enjoyed the luxury of being incredibly picky, carefully selecting what felt like their dream homes in a market that had shifted towards more favorable conditions. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Elevated mortgage rates sank builder confidence again in November, but recent economic data suggests housing conditions will pick up in the coming months. On the construction side, homebuilders as well as land developers found it hard to finance projects because of high short-term interest rates.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Industry economists attribute the uptick in housing starts and builder confidence to the low level of existing home inventory. In April, the inventory of existing homes for sale totaled just 980,000, far lower than the long-term average of about 2.3 As a result, prospective buyers may turn to the new-home market. million homes.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Newly built homes have taken up an outsized portion of inventory since the pandemic for two main reasons, according to Redfin. home construction at the onset of the pandemic. Remote work and historically low mortgage rates made it particularly attractive to buy a home. This share is still roughly double pre-pandemic levels.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 23, 2024

Rising mortgage rates in April were the main factor attributed to the slowdown. The last four weeks mortgage rates have been above 7 percent and this is clearly causing many potential home buyers to sit on the fence,” says Carl Harris, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), in a statement. “The

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

New home construction continues to climb, as privately owned single-family housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.496 million, a 22.6% Homebuilders have supported sales by drawing down existing inventories of homes previously started. The post New home construction shoots up 22.6% Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

Sectors that were hit hardest by the pandemic led job growth last month, with jumps in leisure, hospitality, public and private education and construction – good signs for the housing industry. The Mortgage Bankers Association expects this heightened pace to drop unemployment numbers to below 5% by the end of the year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The nation’s housing industry has entered a new normal in which the dynamics of the market appear perplexing — marked by high mortgage rates and high home prices, along with shrinking mortgage originations. trillion in mortgage originations in 2021. The perplexing part: Why are home prices not declining in this environment?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cutting prices is one of several mechanisms homebuilders have employed to keep buyers interested since rates began skyrocketing. Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s a fact: Buyer-side commissions are no longer a guarantee and no longer an entitlement. Builders don’t all pay the same buyer-side commissions; some don’t pay any buyer-side commissions. So how do you provide overwhelming value to your buyer clients? For Sale By Owners are the same.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? I don’t believe housing inventory below 1.52 The housing market shifted in March of this year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

After a month of very little change in April , the construction sector had a solid month of job growth in May, according to the U.S. Construction gained 36,000 jobs in May, with residential building adding 5,000 jobs and residential specialty trade contractors gain 11,700 jobs. The post Residential construction jobs now 7.6%

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

You can thank a rise in housing inventory for the gains. million in June 2020 as housing inventory has slowly improved in recent months. Total housing inventory at the end of June amounted to 1.25 from May’s inventory and down 18.8% ” Unsold housing inventory sits at a 2.6-month Sales climbed 22.9%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With mortgage rates hovering around 7% and home prices still at record highs, buyers across America are calling off the house hunt and finding multifamily apartments. . Some of his would-be buyers are renting apartments until mortgage rates markedly improve. It could be a while. year over year, to a rate of 644,000.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” While Fischer attributes some of the uptick in activity to typical seasonality, he noted that the recent relative stability and even slight decreases in mortgage rates have also contributed. According to Altos Research, as of Feb.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Mortgage rates jumped this week as investors grapple with persistent positive economic data and a hawkish Fed. The 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 6.81% as of July 6, up significantly from last week ’s 6.71%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

With few homeowners willing to give up their low mortgage rates, Mike Roberts has shifted his focus to targeting first-time homebuyers. A first-time homebuyer requires a tremendous amount of nurturing,” said Roberts, the president and founder of City Creek Mortgage. “A Niche loans consist of about 5% of Parkinson’s business. “It’s

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mortgage demand for new homes jumped in October as the inventory for existing homes remained depleted. Mortgage applications for new-home purchases rose 39.7% in October on a year-over-year basis and were up 6% from the previous month, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey for October.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales slumped last month under the weight of elevated mortgage rates. There are nearly six million more jobs now compared to pre-COVID highs, which suggests more aspiring home buyers exist in the market.” The inventory of existing homes has been steadily increasing, despite elevated mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

As the housing market cooled further during the fourth quarter of 2022, homebuilders also continued to pull back on single-family construction. It uses county-level data for single and multi-family permits to gauge housing construction growth in both urban and rural metros. in Q4 2021 to -12.1% in Q4 2022. a year ago to -11.7%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

On the other hand, mortgage rates have gone down more than 1% since Oct. The builders’ stock prices have done well as mortgage rates have fallen , and this illustrates the simplicity of the homebuilders’ position: their story is really about mortgage rates and moving products. 291,000 homes are still under construction: 5.7

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Months of high mortgage rates and low existing inventory led to another annual increase in new home purchases in June. Mortgage applications for new home purchases jumped 26.1% in June from the same period last year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association builder application survey. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

As existing home inventory continues to fall, builder confidence is on the rise, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Monday. Builders note that additional declines in mortgage rates, to below 6%, will price-in further demand for housing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

“I haven’t seen a dry spell like this in the time I’ve been in business,” Bob Yopko, president of First Equity Residential Mortgage , said of this year’s spring homebuying season. Mortgage rates tend to align with the 10-year U.S. “Mortgage rates should be 5.55%, not 6.5%,” he said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While existing homebuyers have been battling high mortgage rates for months — which are now at 8% — the builders are wooing buyers with lower rates and incentives. Imagine what the existing home sales market would look like if mortgage rates were below 6%. months , the builders will pause construction. When supply is 4.4-6.4

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