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Housing Wire
JUNE 28, 2022
Since 2014, we’ve not seen the credit housing boom that we saw from 2002-2005. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. Also, certain investors felt no fear post-2020.
Housing Wire
MARCH 18, 2022
My concern now is that some sellers are feeling stressed about this market, which should never happen because this is the best seller market ever. However, a seller is also a natural homebuyer, unless they’re an investor. You can see why some sellers are stressed now. People who sell need to live somewhere.
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Housing Wire
JANUARY 20, 2023
The lack of sellers is also a demand problem and what we saw after June of 2022 is that sellers called it quits earlier and faster in the year than usual, resulting in total existing home sales totaling 5,030,000 to end 2022. So the fact that we are back to an average of 26 days on market makes me happier.
Housing Wire
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A traditional primary resident seller is also a buyer, which means if they don’t list, they’re not just taking a potential home to be bought off the table — they’re taking a future sale off the books as well. However, it’s not the market of 2002-2011. from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.80 million in August.”
Housing Wire
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage broke 7% for the first time since April 2002, leading to greater stagnation in the housing market,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement. A year ago at this time, rates averaged 3.14%. The survey, conducted weekly since 1990, covers 75% of all U.S.
Housing Wire
AUGUST 30, 2022
However, we haven’t had a credit sales boom like the one we saw from 2002-2005. One of the issues with existing home inventory has been that, for the most part, a traditional seller is usually a buyer of a home. I am not talking about investors; I am talking about primary resident homeowners. million listings.
Housing Wire
MARCH 23, 2022
It’s also driven more by mortgage buyers who tend to be older and make more money than the new-home buyers. Compared to the existing home sales marketplace, it doesn’t have a high cash buyer or investor buyer profile. Like home sellers, they try to make as much money as possible. percent (±11.9
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