Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Available inventory of homes for sale is on the rise in late September, which is very unusual for this time of year. In fact, inventory is growing faster than this time a year ago. 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.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

As a result, the available inventory of homes for sale is slightly higher each week. Higher mortgage rates mean higher monthly payments, less affordability for home buyers and slightly fewer transactions. With fewer transactions, inventory is building just a bit as we approach the end of the summer.

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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 We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Specifically, when housing inventory is 25% greater than a year ago, the supply/demand balance is obviously very different than it has been. Housing inventory The available inventory of unsold homes continued to climb last week. Last year, inventory was still declining in March. Now it’s on the rise. A year with 5.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

So, it was necessary to highlight that for this report because our fresh current inventory data paints a different picture. 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. from the previous year ($385,800). All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It’s official – housing inventory in America is at a crisis level. The number of active listings hit an all-time low during the week ending November 28, according to a Redfin report published on Wednesday. The post Housing inventory has never been lower appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Buyers in this real estate market notice these affordability changes, and so we can see in the data fewer home purchase offers, slightly climbing unsold inventory, and slightly more price reductions for the homes that are on the market. And every uptick in mortgage rates leads to a downtick in the number of home buyers in the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

On Friday NAR reported that total housing inventory levels broke under 1 million in December, dropping to 970,00 units for a population of 330 million people. million in January down to about 4 million in December, We now have total inventory levels near all-time lows again. During that period, we saw new listing data decline.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Price reductions typically peak in November before resetting for the holidays and the fresh inventory in the spring. Both dynamics are elevated this year: more of the homes on the market have taken price cuts and the slope is pretty steep — meaning more homes each week are cutting prices because they don’t have offers from buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We’re watching inventory , which continues to grow by 3% each week. Housing inventory When we look at the active inventory of unsold homes on the market, we can definitely see the impact of higher mortgage rates in the past month. Normally, inventory is climbing at this point in the second quarter.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. Home prices not expected to fall Home prices are high due to competition among buyers for limited inventory in the market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Inventory continues to build at the national level, something that’s happening most rapidly in the South. If you need to communicate about the real estate market with buyers and sellers, you should join us. It’s the peak season for buyers and sellers. In May of that year, inventory was climbing by 3% to 4% each week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Those metrics, specifically the pace of new listings and new sales contracts, slowed this week. Our immediate sales metric of homes that get offers within a couple days of listing also slowed. New listings and new contracts both still show a bit of improvement over 2023, but the growth rates have slid back down.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This is not a recipe to keep the home buyer momentum we saw building in December. As mortgage rates remain higher than last year, inventory is higher than last year as well. Remember that the way to more selection for home buyers is with higher mortgage rates. Higher rates equals higher inventory. There are 8.8%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. Active inventory fell 1,109, and new listing data made a lovely comeback week to week but was still noticeably down year over year. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Inventory increases aren’t occurring at a super fast pace, but the number of homes on the market across the country keeps expanding. The good news for the housing market is that the pace of sales is gradually improving due to the expanded supply. Housing inventory There are now just under 600,000 single-family homes on the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Inventory is inching up. Each week, inventory is increasing just a bit relative to last year. Unless rates dip into the 5s, then I expect demand will pick up so quickly that inventory will drop again. Inventory growth is not spread across the country Inventory is climbing in the south and central US.

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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. Inventory creeps up There are now 562,000 single-family homes on the housing market. Don’t be surprised if inventory keeps climbing next week into November. Don’t have time?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The weekly volume of new listings is now higher than at anytime last year. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising. The bearish take is that there are many more sellers than buyers and inventory is rising. Rates are higher now, so unsold inventory is higher.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Inventory is climbing vs. last year, and home prices have stayed flat for three weeks now. And as demand slows, inventory grows. Inventory is up over last year and is about to turn the corner and start climbing for the spring selling season, probably within a couple weeks. Is it too much inventory?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Unsold inventory was nearly 32% higher than at this time last year and 90% higher compared to the end of April 2022. “The 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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Inventory is rising across the country as home-buying affordability takes another hit. As demand slows, inventory grows. Last year at this time, we were seeing surprising home buyer demand with rates having fallen to the low 6s. 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, 2023

While home prices have started to inch down, more inventory is needed for a balanced housing market, the Federal Reserve Beige Book said. In other markets, including the Cleveland district, low inventory levels hindered home prices from dropping further.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Rising mortgage rates mean rising inventory as home buyer demand slows quickly. Most years, available inventory of unsold homes on the market peaks in August. This year inventory is still climbing. This caused inventory to rise dramatically late into October. Less demand means fewer purchases and inventory builds.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For comparison, the index is benchmarked at a reading of 100 based on 2001 contract activity. Meanwhile, new home sales , which are also a measure of contract signings, reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 661,000 in January, up 1.5% Overall active inventory improved 7.9% from December’s annualized rate.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Inventory continues to grow faster than last year at this time. Higher rates equal more inventory, and lower rates equal less inventory. If mortgage rates were to fall between now and January, expect to see inventory decline again next year like it did for most of this year. That’s up a fraction from last week.

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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. New home sales , another measure of contract signings, rose 8% in December on the back of declining mortgage rates. The Northeast was the only region to see a decline in contract signings, with a drop of 3% month over month and 3.9%

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

Diving deeper, for the two week period ending May 9, 2021, 57% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market. The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September. On the bright side, housing inventory rose 1.8% lower than October 2022 when inventory was at 1.22 Meanwhile, unsold inventory sat at a 3.6-month All four U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Meanwhile, the available inventory of unsold homes is growing. This week, inventory grew faster than it did last year at this time. This week was the biggest week of inventory increase all year, with inventory growing by over 9,000 single-family homes. It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

On the other hand, inventory is still near record lows, and there is so much pent-up demand and cash ready to deploy that we are still hitting new record home prices each week. Rapidly rising inventory. There are 305,000 single-family homes unsold on the market this week, and inventory is climbing 4-6% each week.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. On the other hand, inventory is still low, and homes are still selling fast, often with multiple offers. Sales and new pending contracts are below pre-pandemic levels. Buyer disappointment.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2023

Even as mortgage rates rose, and affordability was pushed out of reach for many potential homebuyers, there are still sufficient buyers who can afford these prices and these rates. The number of buyers has been surprising. The median price of the new listings this week is $399,900. In 2022 there were 418,000.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Pending Sales There are now 378,000 single-family homes in contract. There were 68,000 new contracts for single-family homes this week. In the chart below, the light portion of each bar represents the new contracts each week. But, there were another 15,000 condos and townhomes that went into contract this week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mortgage rates have been stubbornly above 7% for two months and it sure looks like home buyers are growing weary. We can see signs that buyers are slowing, both in the sales volume and in the sales price data. This slowdown is not like last year, instead, it’s just slightly fewer buyers each week. That’s the Altos Rule.

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