Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

With the Easter holiday last week, data for housing inventory , new listings and the pace of new contracts started all took a breather from their growth pace. Here’s how 2024 is shaping up: There are now more listings, more active inventory and more sales than a year ago. Inventory will climb again with this week’s data.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

How will homebuyers and sellers react and how quickly can we measure it? Higher mortgage rates have forced available inventory to climb all year. Housing inventory There are now 526,000 single-family homes active unsold on the market. jump in unsold inventory in a week is very notable. This concept is counter-intuitive.

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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. We still see more sellers than last year. This the first inventory increase of the year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. Of my initial expectations this year — rising inventory, rising sales rates, rising prices — only rising inventory remains clear at this moment as we finish Q1 with rising interest rates. As we started 2024, the signals in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Taking the top spot as the greatest challenge was low inventory , with nearly half (49%) of respondents ranking that as their biggest challenge. Some agents also reported that they show their seller clients what other sellers in the area were offering in terms of buy-side commissions. “I

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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 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

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. What’s happening with inventory? Normally by this point in September, available inventory is declining slightly each week.

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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

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

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. Elevated mortgage rates slow demand so that inventory grows, but in years past, the total sales volume has been restricted by the limited supply. Let’s dig further into the details of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs 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

MAY 20, 2024

Price reductions typically peak in November before resetting for the holidays and the fresh inventory in the spring. The second dynamic to watch here is how many sellers are cutting their prices each week. In these markets, inventory is growing more rapidly and other costs, such as insurance and taxes, are up a lot.

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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

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. In one of the most historical years in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

With low housing inventory nationwide, agents are using innovative ways to find real estate seller leads and convert them into listings. To help you snag more listings, we updated our list of proven strategies to win more real estate seller leads in 2024. If you want a shot at generating seller leads online, you need one, too.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

Inventory is slowly but steadily increasing over last year, which means slightly more options for buyers this spring. We have more homes going into contract each week now than we did a year ago — supply and demand are climbing together. Inventory ends higher The year finished with 513,000 single-family homes on the market.

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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. More sellers means more sales will happen.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

Inventory is inching up. Sellers are coming back There are 499,000 single-family homes unsold on the market now. Each week, inventory is increasing just a bit relative to last year. There are slightly more sellers each week. Last year, was marked by how few sellers there were. Home sales are increasing every week.

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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. A lot of sellers are also willing to let buyers slip away because they don’t want to concede to repair requests,” Morre said.

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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. As the U.S. Click that to reserve your spot now. for the week.

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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

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. And there is certainly no flood of sellers.

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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 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 It’s still April, so there could be as many as eight more weeks of seller growth in the spring housing market. There are two ways to interpret this rise in inventory, according to Simonsen.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

Homes in contract rises There are more homes in contract now than last year at this time. Sales growth is not guaranteed This week there were 56,000 contracts started for single-family home purchases. Home sales grow There are now 276,000 single family homes in contract — 5% more than last year at this time.

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Empire Appraisal Group

DECEMBER 14, 2023

1 in 3 Sellers Granting Buyer Concessions By Kerry Smith Two Fla. SEATTLE – Home sellers gave concessions to buyers in 35% of U.S. Tampa, however, saw a rise in seller concessions to 43.1% metro buyer concessions (metros had at least 50 closed deals) Miami : 35.4% But in Tampa, 43.1% a year earlier.

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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

MAY 30, 2024

When I originated loans, there were a certain number of people that just didn’t need an agent — because the buyers and sellers knew each other in some fashion. The first is that we invite buyer’s agents into the platform, so we’ve opened up this inventory to them. Is the seller just there?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But three multibillion-dollar class action antitrust lawsuits looming over the real estate industry may soon reshape how buyers interact with agents. You’ve got current economic conditions that are not opportunistic for a homebuyer right now, inflation is still out there and it’s all constraining buyers’ ability to spend. “You’ve

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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. Supply of homes for sale is very low, and most of the year we’ve had more buyers than sellers. New contracts dipped as affordability is out of reach for so many. That’s blatantly wrong.

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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

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. Last year, inventory climbed dramatically for months.

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