Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. For now, though, the low inventory means housing starts have legs to move higher.

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Empire Appraisal Group

APRIL 22, 2021

While higher housing costs and mortgage rates will chip away at buyer demand, the sheer volume of current buyers makes the next buyers’ market appear far away. Between a wave of foreclosures, rising rents, and underbuilding of new homes, the housing market became much harder to crack into from 2006 to 2017. MECKLENBURG, Tenn. –

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. Freddie Mac projects that home-price growth will average 12.8%

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Of that $93,870, $41,330 is attributable to regulation during development, and $52,540 is due to regulation during construction. The study was filed out by 2,071 NAHB members and 57 developers, and nearly all of the builders — 98.9%, per the study — reported experiencing some type of regulatory cost during construction.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2021

Despite consistent forecasts of a market with rising rates, the 30-year fixed rate mirrored more closely numbers borrowers saw back in February. Low inventory is still a thorny issue as April turns to May, but more new builds appear to be in the pipeline , according to Doug Duncan, F annie Mae chief economist.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was an extraordinary year for the housing market: mortgage rates at an all-time low, record high annual growth in single-family prices and rents, lowest foreclosure rates in a generation and the largest number of home sales in 15 years. In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Buyers are facing a housing market that looks to be as competitive as ever,” Handy said in a statement. Inventory is at a record low and homes are selling within a week of being listed – more than two weeks faster than they did in February 2020.”. The market crunch affects borrowers with less money more acutely, economists said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. The market is savagely unhealthy and needs balance; this is what we call balance! However, the housing market changed once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%. Guess what happened in March?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

After three successive months of record highs, the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index measuring builder confidence fell four points to 86 in December. Policymakers should take note to avoid increasing regulatory costs associated with land development and residential construction,” Fowke said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

census divisions rose 7% in September from a year ago, the greatest year-over-year gain since 2014, and nearly 23% higher than its last peak in 2006. uptick reported in August, and represented the largest annual gain since May 2014 as record-low mortgage rates and a lack of inventory continued to put upward pressure on home prices.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After the GDP report came out, the bond market rallied, sending yields lower, which some people were confused about. Let’s just say, things have been wild with the bond market and mortgage rates all year! So regardless of the economic data — the bond market, the Fed rate hikes, and the U.S. was in a recession.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

Habitual practice of “comparing comps” over “measuring markets” will prevail (in the absence of change in the other “frictions”). NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on declining mortgage loans, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. To read more, click here.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

housing market went into recession in June of this year, which I talked about a few months ago on CNBC. The job loss recession is already here in the housing market, and total incomes are falling with less volume in this sector. In addition, we have a lot of two-unit construction built, which will bring more supply online.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

million in June, as construction companies broke ground on a greater number of both single-family and multifamily buildings last month. It’s the third-highest number of housing starts builders have broken ground on in one month since May of 2006, a sign of strong buyer demand. Housing starts increased 6.3% to a rate of 1.64

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

from its former high in July 2006. Home prices have continued to increase this year as a result of low inventory and high demand for homes. These factors appear likely to remain in place in the near term, and an incrementally improving economy should encourage more buyers to enter the market.”. census divisions, reported an 8.4%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

The existing home sales market is a face on a milk carton, and homebuilders are salivating at the opportunity to meet strong consumer demand. Census Bureau speaks to the growing strength of the new home market, which stands in stark contrast to the moribund re-sale market. So why aren’t they? New data from the U.S. million, 21.7%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

More than a quarter of single-family homes for sale during the first quarter were new-construction homes — nearly 26%, and March housing starts jumped nearly 20% month over month to the highest level since 2006, per the latest report from Redfin. A healthy housing market is considered roughly six months of supply.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. This means that the doors, windows, electrical all are done by contractors after the walls have been constructed.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Housing inventory remains persistently low, home prices are at all-time highs and affordability is becoming out of reach for more people with every passing day. Bill Dallas: As construction and labor costs have climbed, so, too, have home prices. HousingWire: What are the current challenges when it comes to affordable housing?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The single-family rental (SFR) sector and its close cousin, the fix-and-flip market , are now essentially treading water in an environment of high interest rates , approaching 8%; high home prices; and a dearth of home-purchase inventory. That’s particularly true for mom-and-pop investors across both market segments.

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Clear Capital

AUGUST 30, 2021

The August 2021 Home Data Index (HDI ) Market Report shows national quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) home price growth is at 6.4 In that case, we encourage the consideration of the additional year-over-year comparison based upon price-per-square-foot, which may be more in line with market dynamics in this situation. months worth of supply.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 17, 2022

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on real estate market, USPAP and contracts, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. My Comments on Market Changes. Fannie and Freddie have long said that they want appraisers to tell them about their markets. When will it affect your market?

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Empire Appraisal Group

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Today’s market isn’t like the boom-bust cycle leading up to the Great Recession: Tough loan standards are the norm, plus many factors have kept housing supply low. Exuberant buying – with multiple offers and bidding wars – has become common across the country, reminiscent of the fevered market before the 2008 housing crash. MCLEAN, Va.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Single-family housing starts ended 2020 on a high note, rising 12% in December to a 1.338 million unit pace – the highest pace since 2006, according to the Census Bureau. Remarkably, most industry experts believe construction rates will climb even higher in 2021. That’s up 27.8%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

What’s even better is that this momentum is likely to carry into the new year, with more buyers expected to enter the market,” said Yun. Total housing inventory at the end of December totaled 1.07 Yun added that 70% of homes sold in December of 2020 were on the market for less than a month. “To Sales also rose 0.7%

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Warns Danielle Hale, chief economist with realtor.com: “While younger Millennial and Gen Z buyers are expected to play a growing role in the housing market, fast-rising prices will create a bigger barrier to entry for the many first-time buyers in these generations who don’t have existing home equity to tap for down payment savings.”.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A A growing diversified base of technology companies continue to proclaim the Eastside market as one of the best living and job opportunities in the country,” noted local commercial property firm Broderick Group in a report issued last month. “A million sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

And, Seattle’s attempt to force building developers to incorporate more affordable homes within their new residential endeavors yielded only 21 units in 2020 out of a swell of 224 construction projects. Developers opted to pay fees to the city totaling $68M instead, funds that help construct affordable homes in other parts of the city.

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