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

APRIL 5, 2024

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Millennials comprised 75% of this demographic, with older millennials and Generation X (ages 44 to 58) accounting for 44% and 24% of first-time buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

These metros also continue to grapple with below-average inventory recovery, maintaining pressure on buyers. New Orleans, San Antonio, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville are among the locales that posted the slowest month-over-month price growth in March. ” Competition is stiff for attractive listings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

The trade group also predicts that rent growth will ease due to sizable growth in apartment construction over the past three years. Looking ahead Confronted with limited existing home inventory, many buyers have pivoted to newly constructed homes. But new listings activity grew by 9.1% year over year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

This has dampened new home sales and quickened home-price growth.” ” Mark Palim, deputy chief economist at Fannie Mae , said anecdotal reports of builders delaying or turning down orders to clear a growing construction backlog appears to be borne out by the recent housing starts data. percent,” Palim said Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

New construction starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.331 million units, down 14.8% New starts in the Northeast and the Midwest fell 20.6% Housing inventory remained low in January and new homes still accounted for about 30% of all homes available for sale. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Homebuilder sentiment rose for the seventh consecutive month and new construction activity slightly pulled back as the cost of materials picked up. Ironically, the elevated mortgage rates are not making a dent on home prices, which remain high because of a depleted inventory.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

Low housing inventory and still-strong demand kept prices high in March, according to the latest according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index , released Tuesday. The annual growth rate in March 2023 was up 0.7%. On a month-over-month basis, the index was up 1.3% before seasonal adjustment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Remember, with median sales prices and inventory, it’s very seasonal. Something notable about this report: Total active listings as the NAR tracks them almost broke under 1 million again. However, remember, the dive in inventory is normal at this time of the year. Below are charts with today’s report and the trend.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Builders are taking advantage of the housing market inventory issues , which is why new home sales are growing yearly, even with higher mortgage rates. I often use the term efficient home sellers to describe the home builders in this low inventory environment. New Home Supply New home supply is a more complicated matter.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They don’t ever have to have the conversation about how low their total payment is in the new home they’re buying, unlike some of their buyers (which explains higher cancellation rates). Homebuilders’ for-sale inventory and months’ supply The seasonally-adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of January was 439,000.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year we had monthly existing home sales collapse back to 2007 levels, except this time around, NAR has total inventory at 970,000 and not over 4 million. In an odd twist of fate, the delays due to COVID-19 are currently an infrastructure and jobs program for Americans in the construction industry. months of supply.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

fell to a four-month low in January as builders expressed concerns about higher house prices, COVID-related supply chain issues and construction costs. The gauge charting traffic of prospective buyers decreased five points to 68. How to gain more listing visibility in a shifting housing market. Homebuilder confidence in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Housing demand weakened noticeably as growing concerns about affordability contributed to non-seasonal declines in sales, resulting in a slight increase in inventory and more moderate price appreciation,” states the Federal Reserve’s most recently released Beige Book report — based on data and reports current as of mid-July.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

With record-low inventory nationwide, real estate agents seem to be hearing the same thing day in and day out: “I’d list my home, but where would I move?” For most agents, that’s the end of the conversation, ending the possibility of taking a new listing as well as facilitating the buyer side. range currently!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The point of the editorial seemed to be to scaremonger over government programs to help home buyers and student loan borrowers. So, the author tried to use new construction prices from back in April to describe the whole U.S. Supply of homes for sale is very low, and most of the year we’ve had more buyers than sellers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And inventory shortages are the culprit. But many would-be buyers have also been thwarted by comically low resale inventory, as well as supply chain constraints and escalating materials costs that have made life difficult for homebuilders. That said, there has been an increase in permits and requests to build new homes.”.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

Currently on Realtor.com , more than 2,000 homes are currently on the market in Knoxville with an average listing price of $270,000. But like the rest of the country, low housing inventory has hit the city hard. The KAAR also said housing inventory dropped for six straight months to start the new year. year-over-year.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 15, 2023

Ah, for the good old days of 2019 – when we could stomach home prices closer to the mid-million-dollar mark and housing options were somewhat plentiful amid a mildly competitive buyer environment. From a buyer’s perspective, it couldn’t be worse. Mortgage rates are high, home prices are high, there’s no inventory.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

As has been the case for roughly a full calendar year, sky-high prices of building materials and, in turn, pricier new homes are keeping some buyers at bay. “The conventional share of applications hit a new high, as overall housing inventory levels remain extremely low and are pushing home prices higher,” he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

Secret #2 Sometimes, especially in a low-inventory market, your potential seller client may know about comparable sales you didn’t capture. How would it compare in the eyes of the buyer? Know what’s going on with the new construction! Have the new build salespeople explain their different mortgage plans to you.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

They have to move as well, so a traditional seller is a buyer most of the time when it’s a primary resident owner. We see some of this in the active listing data as new listings are declining. Lower rates may pull some of these listings forward as people feel more comfortable with rates down; time will tell.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The downturn in the LEI reflects consumers’ worsening outlook amid high inflation and rising interest rates, as well as declining prospects for housing construction and manufacturing. In addition, we have a lot of two-unit construction built, which will bring more supply online. NAR total inventory data: 1,220,000 listings.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 12, 2024

As a result, home buyers and sellers across Seattle/King County saw a mixed bag of activity in February, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). This return of buyers follows a sluggish late 2023. Months of inventory continue to be a burden on all buyers. Inventory is at 1.3 There is 1.9

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 11, 2023

First, let’s set the scene: Housing inventory is shrinking year to year in most parts of the country and there are no signs of significant replenishment over the horizon. As the chart shows, a historically large segment of Millennials is inching toward 36, the median age of a first-time home buyer in the U.S.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 29, 2022

It also looks at other metrics like New Listings and New Pending Sales as they are often the best indicators for predicting future trends in the market The inventory crisis last year caused demand to spike higher than ever by fall and into the winter, which in turn caused prices to continue to increase significantly.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The market is spooking many potential buyers and sellers thanks to stubbornly high mortgage interest rates. Only buyers and sellers who must move are doing so. fewer new listings, the rate of sales rose 1.7% fewer new listings (1998) compared to July and 5.0% Inventory was little changed from July to August.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 24, 2022

It also looks at other metrics like New Listings and New Pending Sales as they are often the best indicators for predicting future trends in the market. The inventory crisis last year caused demand to spike higher than ever by fall into winter, which in turn caused prices to continue to increase significantly.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The number of newly listed homes more than doubled from December and increased moderately compared with the same time last year, according to data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Total inventory remains low, however, keeping prices higher on an annual basis. higher than January 2023. fewer (1842) than on Jan.

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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From late summer of 2022 to now, the Texas real estate market has experienced one of the most unpredictable corrections in recent history, leaving a lot of home-buyers and sellers scratching their heads and trying to make sense of what is going on. Seize the moment to leverage the increased inventory and negotiate favorable prices.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Others – Meritage Homes (+20% YoY in 2021) and Tri Point Homes (+15-30% YoY in 2022) – expect tremendous growth of new communities. And many of the new projects are larger than in years past. Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. BY THE NUMBERS. >> Buyers secured 3.8 That’s fair.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It also looks at other metrics like New Listings and New Pending Sales as they are often the best indicators for predicting future trends in the market The inventory crisis last year caused demand to spike higher than ever by fall into winter, which in turn caused prices to continue to increase significantly.

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Raleigh Realty

JULY 12, 2022

Raleigh Real Estate Supply Raleigh is currently in a buyer’s market, which means there are more homes for sale than available buyers. This means buyers have more power to negotiate for lower pricing. While resale homes are spending less time on the market, there are still more homes for sale than buyers in Raleigh.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 13, 2023

Unfortunately for buyers, both figures – prices and rates – are climbing, raising the hurdle to homeownership even higher for many. The pandemic housing market was super-charged by historically low interest rates and buyers seeking more spacious properties amid global health fears. months’ total inventory in the county, down from 1.4

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Berkshire Hathaway

MAY 5, 2021

The trend this year seems to be among buyers “why is it so hard to find a house” Well one of the answers is we are in the ultimate sellers’ market, which means the market it very competitive for buyers right now. Though buyer shouldn’t be alarmed.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 14, 2023

Unless the listed home is in a favorable location, priced competitively and move-in ready, activity has been somewhat muted as prospective buyers and sellers wait for economic conditions to improve. Notably, there are 185% more listings available today across the Eastside of the county compared with February 2022.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Higher mortgage rates will end double-digit price growth and new listings will hit a 10-year high,” predicts Redfin. But don’t expect a buyer’s market; just more selection, less frenzy and slower price growth.” Others are forecasting a rate of appreciation that would be the slowest in more than a decade.”

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