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Building material prices take their toll on new home sales

Housing Wire

In order to account for uncertain prices and availability of materials, homebuilders are holding off on making homes available until they are further along in the construction process. ” Technology for navigating secondary market challenges. . ” Technology for navigating secondary market challenges.

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U.S. Housing Market Collapse? Nowhere in Sight

Empire Appraisal Group

Housing Market Collapse? Housing Market Collapse? The housing market has taken a few hits, such as a doubling of mortgage rates in 2022, but it remains solid even if legitimate news providers suggest doom and gloom. housing market is suffering some cracks, but an outright collapse is nowhere in sight.

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Wage growth downtrend kills 1970s inflation fear

Housing Wire

The monthly jobs report showed losses in construction, retail trade, and manufacturing, while the other sectors showed growth. For those who did not follow me during the COVID-19 recovery period, I had a few critical talking points about the labor market: The COVID-19 recovery model was written on April 7, 2020.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Housing recession. That would be a positive for demand.

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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

Housing Wire

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. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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Amazon news raises new recession red flag

Housing Wire

Look at the jobs data and which sector added jobs in March: Construction jobs came in positively, but the real winner was manufacturing jobs. Job openings in construction and manufacturing are big in America today. As we can see, the labor market is solid and has some legs. The unemployment rate currently stands at 3.6%.

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Like it or not, desktop appraisals are here to stay

Housing Wire

Desktop appraisals arrived in March of 2020, allowing the housing market to keep humming while many stayed indoors to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Allowing appraisals without a walk-through was one of several flexibilities the Federal Housing Finance Agency allowed in light of the pandemic.

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