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

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Back then, as hot as that market was, I don’t remember the bidding wars that we see in today’s market, because at that time, the levels of housing supply were not nearly as low as they are today. It is interesting that inventory levels were increasing rapidly in the years leading up to 2008. And the saga continues.

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US housing market is short 5.5 million homes, NAR says

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors says the current state of the housing market is absolutely “dire,” the consequence of a housing shortage 30 years in the making. According to the lobbying group, construction of long-term housing fell 5.5 From 1968 to 2000, the total stock of U.S. in the last decade.

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New home sales make it clear: Housing is in a recession

Housing Wire

This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. Since the summer of 2020, I have genuinely believed the housing market could change once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%. The peak of the housing bubble was roughly 1.4

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

New home sales From Census : Sales of new single-family houses in January 2023 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 670,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. However, this isn’t how inventory grows in America.

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How do you solve the California housing crisis?

Housing Wire

According to Ben Metcalf, managing director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, the homeownership rate for California is 50 percentage points lower than the rest of the nation at only 44% in 2021. That represents a serious downtrend from a 50% homeownership rate in 2000. What’s the solution?

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DataDigest: What the latest data says about home prices, construction and sales

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The index, which pegs January 2000 at 100, reached a seasonally adjusted all-time high of 311.175 in September as tight inventory continues to keep prices elevated. The figure – up 17.7%

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Homebuilders are feeling pretty good right now

Housing Wire

Homebuilder confidence is continuing to trend upward this spring, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Tuesday. Lack of existing inventory continues to drive buyers to new construction,” Robert Dietz , the NAHB’s chief economist, said in a statement. “In