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Logan Mohtashami on why this is a savagely unhealthy housing market

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Due to this reality, I have downgraded the housing market from unhealthy housing to a savagely unhealthy housing market. HousingWire: How will rising rates affect new home construction? Housing construction will be impacted if the monthly supply for new homes breaks above 6.5 Inventory has been falling for years.

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Opinion: why we all have a stake in closing the homeownership gap

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In addition, some white neighborhoods had zoning laws that legally banned non-white buyers from owning homes in those neighborhoods. million new minority homeowners when the president launched the Blueprint for the American Dream in 2002. This means that the most likely buyer for many of these new retirees will be a minority family.

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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

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As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. It is crazy to think we are seeing these four things happen in the housing market considering that even in March of this year we were seeing bidding wars accelerate before mortgage rates rose.

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How will rising rates affect new home construction?

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Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S.

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Low housing inventory a win for homebuilders

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However, with active listings now near all-time lows, the builders’ new homes still have more value in the housing market than what we saw in previous decades. They can cut prices, pay down mortgage rates for their buyers, and do what they need to to make it work for them to move their products. When supply is 4.3

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Completion data is positive news for housing market

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This is the reason construction workers still have jobs, and that backlog needs to be finished; this is a positive outcome. The bigger story here is that if we want to see mortgage rates fall, we need more rental units, and right now we have a massive backlog of 2-unit homes under construction — over 900,000. percent (±12.3

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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

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The housing market shifted in March of this year. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time. That’s not the case now because we have’t had a credit boom post-2010 as we did from 2002 to 2005. housing market. What is going on here?

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