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New listings surge as the spring buying season approaches

Housing Wire

New listings ticked up by 21% in February compared to last year, according to Zillow ’s February report. New listings rose 20% from January, and each of the 50 largest U.S. metros experienced an increase in new listings. Texas and Florida saw the biggest jump in new listings, year over year.

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The 2023 housing market bent, but didn’t break

Housing Wire

Let’s look at the tracker for the week before Christmas and see what the forward-looking data looks like before we open presents. This got tested in 2023 with 8% mortgage rates ; not only did that not happen, but the new listing data was very stable, meaning it was forming a bottom. Weekly inventory change : (Dec.15-22)

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Why fewer homes are taking a price cut, even while inventory rises

Housing Wire

While weekly inventory is still falling, we have year-over-year growth in total active listing and new listings data. For the first time in a while, this was a good week for new listing data. This calls into question a mortgage rate lockdown, as mortgage rates are also higher year over year.

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Even with low inventory, expect a strong 2021 housing market

Housing Wire

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. The divide between supply and demand is striking: compared to last year, total new listings increased.22%,

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Mortgage rates should drop below 7% as housing demand picks up

Housing Wire

Purchase application data Hello, early Christmas present! One concern with higher mortgage rates was that more sellers — who are traditional buyers — would not list their homes. I talked about growth in the new listings data on CNBC as it appeared to me we were forming a bottom months ago. Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory finally rises

Housing Wire

Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active listings rose by 8,546 , and new listing data showed some growth. If that is the case, then this week’s gain in active inventory and new listings needs to be taken with a grain of salt until we get next week’s data. However, I will take what I can now.

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Housing inventory growth slows to a halt

Housing Wire

We saw some good growth this week, and hopefully, in 2024, we can close the gap and get back to 2021-2022 data on new listings. That is the critical period for new listing data to grow; remember, most sellers are buyers. Weekly inventory change (Nov. 10) : Inventory rose from 566,882 to 566,941 Same week last year (Nov.

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