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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

Housing Wire

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. The one period where this didn’t happen was from 2006-2011, when credit forced Americans to sell, to rent or to be homeless. The days on market were too low. And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5

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US home prices hit record level (again)

Housing Wire

below its 2006 peak. Home price growth remained scorching hot as the housing market entered the dog days of summer, but data released in the weeks since indicate cooler days in the months to come,” Matthew Speakman a Zillow economist said in a statement. “The increase in home prices in July from a year earlier.

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The nation’s housing market is on a correction course

Housing Wire

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. The market is going to go into correction,” he said. “I

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Home sales are going to nosedive in 2023, Fannie Mae says

Housing Wire

The forecast for the housing market in 2023 gets worse by the month, with the latest report predicting a million-plus decline in existing home sales. The slowing effect on the housing market of the higher mortgage rate environment has been largely predictable, and home prices appear to have already begun trending downward.”.

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Are new home sales flagging a recession?

Housing Wire

A lot of the housing data was lagging the rate move, so it wasn’t apparent that higher rates impacted the data yet. 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%. However, the housing market changed once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%.

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VA Approves Desktops and Exterior-Only Appraisals

Appraisal Today

The housing market is cooling-off. Excerpts: Lending was not very prudent prior to the crash of 2008 as suggested by the trend in the median credit score (FICO), a measure for credit worthiness; for newly originated first-time purchase mortgages the median FICO score was 686 in Q1 2006 versus 740 in Q4 2020. Find out why not.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for March 2022

Lamacchia Realty

To learn more about Shauna, click here: Shauna Fanning Kelly Dimbat has lived in Billerica since 2006 and has been a top producing REALTOR® in Billerica and the surrounding communities for several years. Kelly joined forces with Lamacchia Realty in January 2019, after having owned James Marcora Realty in Billerica, MA since 2006.