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Is the housing market really 20% overbuilt?

Housing Wire

Nevertheless, some supposedly erudite thinkers on the housing market are saying this, so I thought I should investigate. If the housing market was in the grips of some mass hysteria of irrational purchasing, we would expect to see certain hallmarks in the data. The post Is the housing market really 20% overbuilt?

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This is not 2008 all over again for the housing market

Housing Wire

When you hear people say that the current housing market is like 2008 all over again, you may want to remind them of the huge differences between this market and that one. When you don’t have a boom in housing market demand, it’s hard to have an epic bust. The previous economic expansion, from 2010-2019, wasn’t a housing bubble.

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Is the savagely unhealthy housing market back?

Housing Wire

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

Housing Wire

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. When an associate agent joins any KW market center, they have to name their sponsor. On March 25, Robert E.

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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

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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Balance to Return to the Housing Market

Appraisal Buzz

After a torrid start to the year, home price appreciation will slow, and new construction will replenish the nation’s inventory in the second half of 2002. The post Balance to Return to the Housing Market appeared first on DSNews. The post Balance to Return to the Housing Market appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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The 2022 housing market: A tale of two halves

Housing Wire

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. But the housing market in the second half of 2022? By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in. The 2002 housing market has been a tale of two halves,” said Green. A mortgage rate lockdown freezes the housing market.