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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

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This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. 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.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

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To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. One of the critical data lines that I want to see improve this year is days on market.

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Is the savagely unhealthy housing market back?

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Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. This is why the days on the market are so low historically after 2020. million, up from 1.03

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The housing market recession continues, despite starts data

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real estate investors and affordable homes. The June housing starts data beat estimates with positive revisions, however, this doesn’t change the housing market recession call that I made last month. We never saw the credit sales boom as we did from 2002-2005, so the builders themselves are in a better position to manage their future.

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Keller Williams faces three lawsuits tied to its profit-sharing program 

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On March 22, Moulder, who worked with Keller Williams from 2002 to 2011, filed a complaint aiming for class-action status in the U.S. Hill, a former KW agent from 2002 to 2013, filed a similar complaint in the U.S. these funds continue to enrich only affiliated real estate agents, investors, brokers, and staff.”

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This savagely unhealthy housing market needs higher rates

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million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. Spoiler: If you haven’t realized that the housing market since 2012 has been trolled out by professional grifters who don’t ever forecast sales, that is on you. million and 1.93 Today inventory levels are at 1.02 I use the 1.52-1.93

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What will housing credit look like in next recession?

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housing market would crash during the pandemic. today and why they’re so different than the period of 2002-2008. However, the current housing market is much different than the credit boom-and-bust cycle of 2002-2008, and it’s vital to understand why. housing market. Many people predicted that the U.S.