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As mortgage rates hit a two-decade high, mortgage applications tick down

Housing Wire

It is still facing limited for-sale inventory and struggling with affordability issues. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs picked up to 6.47% from 6.42% a week prior. Based on the FOMC’s most recent projections, rates are expected to be higher for longer, which has driven Treasury yields to new heights. Lastly, the U.S.

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Mortgage demand finally ticks up

Housing Wire

percent – the highest since December 2000. Purchase applications increased but were still 27 percent lower than a year ago, as elevated mortgage rates and tight housing inventory continue to weigh on home-buying activity,” Kan added. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs fell to 6.48% from 6.50% a week prior.

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Annual home-price growth cooled further in February

Housing Wire

However, despite the recent uptick, the continued low inventory conditions are expected to keep home prices elevated nationally. Because most home sales take several months from contract to closing, the data likely includes some deals struck in October and November. to a reading of 297.68. The 10-city home price index also posted a 0.4%

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Why the US MLS system is the envy of other countries

Housing Wire

As an Irish immigrant to the United States in 1996 who became a real estate broker in 2000, I can tell you this: The U.S. And on top of all that, any buyer in “contract” can get “gazumped” (contracted price goes up) at any time until the final weeks of that sale agreement. No one helps them with the negotiation process.

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Purchase market is poised to topple refi’s reign in 2021

Housing Wire

Homes with lower balances, typically $300,000 or less, struggled to keep pace due to extreme inventory shortages. “In some cases and some geographies we are looking at prices topping records from the mid-2000’s,” Kan said. this year, a vast improvement from the pandemic-induced contraction of 2.4%

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What’s The Leaven Causing Home Prices to Rise Today?

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

On many of my appraisals at that time, my opinion of value would not support the contract price. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid that any contract price is reflective of market value. It is interesting that inventory levels were increasing rapidly in the years leading up to 2008. 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates from 2000 to today.

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U.S. Housing Market Collapse? Nowhere in Sight

Empire Appraisal Group

The housing market is entering the ‘most significant contraction in activity since 2006,’ says Freddie Mac economist” (Fortune). The market is adjusting to a new reality, with much lower sales volumes and far more inventory,” says Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macro. Or to prompt homebuyers to delay buying. “The