Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

David Meyer is thankful that his business is still plugging along during the wildest housing market in decades. 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. . It could be a while.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

What is the best news for mortgage rates long-term? It’s getting more supply of apartments! The best way to fight inflation is always by adding more supply; if your goal is to destroy inflation by killing demand, that is only a temporary fix. The housing market is still in a recession until housing permits rise in duration.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

HousingWire spoke to housing market economists and mortgage industry veterans to get their take on how they believe the jobs report will impact the mortgage and housing industries. The post What a dismal jobs report means for the housing market appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. The business appears durable, too. million and 7.3

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

In the first quarter of 2024, 38% of a typical household’s income was needed to make a mortgage payment on a median-priced, new single-family home in the U.S. That’s according to the Cost of Housing Index (CHI) unveiled Thursday by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

However, since I had the possibility of the 10-year yield getting to 2.42% and 4% plus mortgage rates, I accounted for that in the range. Due to this reality, I have downgraded the housing market from unhealthy housing to a savagely unhealthy housing market. The days on the market to sell a home is too low.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for next year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. Measuring the housing deficit. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register.

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Eyes on Housing

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Both high mortgage rates and supply-chain disruptions have put a damper on the housing market. The growth rate of single-family construction in large metro outlying counties went down to negative 4.4% Read More ›

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Temperatures are slowly starting to rise in many parts of the country as we head into spring — and so is homebuilder sentiment, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday. Builders are continuing to offer a variety of incentives.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Limited inventory, supply chain disruptions and concerns about inflation have led economists at Fannie Mae to lower their mortgage origination forecasts for the remainder of this year and into 2022. It also downsized its 2022 mortgage origination volume forecast by $55 billion to $3.25 trillion from the $4.36

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Thanks to a boom in the housing market and a historic refinance market, the past two years have been a favorable period for the mortgage market. In the process, a historic $9 trillion of mortgage loans were closed over two years. What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022? 2022 Forecast series.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

builder confidence, housing starts, homebuilder, builder, lumber, construction costs. Auld said the homebuilder started construction on 24,800 homes this quarter and homes and inventory “increased 30% from a year ago with only 600 unsold completed homes across the nation. per diluted share.” per diluted share.” billion to $36.1

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Despite this, the NAHB is optimistic that the recent drop in mortgage rates over the past two months might signal that affordability conditions may have reached their low point for this cycle of the housing market. In addition, Q4 also saw average mortgage rates reach a series high of 6.80%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

“This transaction volume is taking place against a backdrop of continuous supply chain and labor disruptions.”. months supply. Buyers are facing a housing market that looks to be as competitive as ever,” Handy said in a statement. This is an increase of 3.3% after a 10.4% drop in January.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Permits for future construction also jumped 1.1% Indeed, privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,487,000, up from 1,471,000 in September. A good inflation report and steadily declining mortgage rates provide some relief to the market,” she said. “At

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

Skyrocketing mortgage rates and a slowdown in new home constructions led to a drop in home purchases in April. Mortgage applications for new home purchases dropped 10.6% in April from the same period last year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association builder application survey. Homebuilders constructed about 1.23

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Finally, some good news: the growth rate of inflation is cooling off for now, and with the CPI inflation report being positive, the 10-year yield fell noticeably, and mortgage rates will fall with that! This of course led some people to believe that bond yields and mortgage rates would go much higher today.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today.

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Eyes on Housing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Two consecutive solid monthly gains for builder confidence, spurred in part by easing mortgage rates, signal that the housing market may be turning a corner even as builders continue to contend with high construction costs and building material supply chain logjams.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

Housing completions were at a rate of 1.045 million in April, just 0.1% million — proof that builders are delaying housing starts due to the marked increase in costs for lumber and other materials, said Mike Fratantoni, Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s chief economist. above the March rate of 1.04

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Eyes on Housing

DECEMBER 23, 2022

While new home sales received a slight bounce in November from moderating mortgage rates, the housing market continues to struggle because of ongoing supply chain disruptions, elevated construction costs, and challenging affordability conditions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The housing market over the summer of 2021 appears to have settled at a level lower than the surge in the second half of 2020 into early 2021,” Ben Ayers, a senior economist at Nationwide , said in a statement. Nearly 80% of homes sold in August were either under construction or yet to be built. Sales of new homes were down 24.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2021

Homebuilder confidence remained unchanged in the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report , holding steady at 83 for newly built single-family homes in May. The Northeast and Midwest both saw significant drops of four and three points, respectively, to 82 and 75.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite the volatile mortgage rate environment and overall economic uncertainty, homebuilder confidence slowly continues to rise, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday.

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Eyes on Housing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In August, housing starts rebounded but housing permits declined for the second straight month. The August drop in building permits indicates that the housing market is continues to cool as rising construction costs, elevated mortgage rates and supply chain disruptions continue to act as a drag on the market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

Housing starts in the U.S. in July compared to the prior month, an indication that construction supply lines are still choked and near record-high home prices are shutting out scores of buyers. “There are now almost 690,000 single-family homes under construction – the largest number since 2007. million units. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. What are you expecting to see next year in terms of supply chain issues?

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

I do a lot with new construction and homeowners’ insurance is cheaper on new builds because they are brand new,” Williams said. With material and labor shortages, and supply chain issues it is taking a year-and-a-half to two years to complete a property.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. How will the Federal Reserve respond to economic developments in 2022, and what will be the impact on mortgage rates?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Homebuilder confidence continued to rise in October despite increasing affordability issues due to rising material prices and ongoing shortages, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report released on Monday. Treasuries and mortgage-backed debt.

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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. How to gain more listing visibility in a shifting housing market. Homebuilder confidence in the U.S. Presented by: Apartments.com.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

Some of the best performing stocks in America this year are from large, national homebuilders – strong consumer demand , limited competition from the existing home sales market , and an improving supply chain have boosted their outlooks. from April, and up 5.7% from May 2022, to 1.63 million. “Our

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In previous expansions, builders’ housing completion data would move in line with housing starts and permits. However, for the first time in recent modern-day history — due to supply chain issues and other factors — housing completion data has lagged behind housing permits and starts.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With economic uncertainty and supply chain issues plaguing the industry, homebuilders pulled back last month. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Housing starts were down 21.4% Housing starts were down 21.4% With mortgage rates back up in February, it’s likely that this momentum will be short lived.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

housing market. And now we are facing a tumultuous year of mortgage market normalization. So it’s true to say that turmoil and mortgage outlooks are strange bedfellows, but it’s true. Interest rates are rising, affordability is a challenge, and geopolitical conflicts impact global supply markets.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The economic standoff between rising inflation and rising interest rates continues to weaken the housing market nationwide, with home sales falling across all 12 Federal Reserve districts, according to the Fed’s latest Beige Book report. The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee is slated to meet July 26-27. “A

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Despite the decline, many industry observers see big potential for the housing market in the year ahead. It’s no secret that low mortgage rates and societal shifts brought on by COVID-19 have collided to form a red-hot housing market. But home prices have increased. Presented by: Fannie Mae. million in 2020.

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