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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. What I mean by a credit bust is that after the housing bubble burst in 2005 into 2006, we saw a massive increase in supply. These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does.

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Opinion: The end of seller speculation in US housing market

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A few months ago, the United States housing market failed Econ 101. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. Table 1: 10 Hottest Housing Markets out of the Top 250 Metro Areas, February 2022. Table 1, below, reports the 10 hottest U.S. Bellingham, WA 51.7% -8.3%

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How housing credit is shaping housing inventory

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You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008. Since most sellers are buyers, inventory should be stable if demand is stable. So you can see why we have so few stressed sellers.

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The power of data with Mike Simonsen

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Mike Simonsen, president of Altos Research , will share his data-focused insights on the housing market at Gathering of Eagles 2023. Simonsen founded Altos Research in 2006. The information in an Altos Market Report ranges from median home price to days on the market and the percent of price decreases.

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Housing inventory falls under 1M again as sales collapse

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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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Side’s Hilary Saunders discusses the evolution of brokerage models

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2006 is when Zillow came out with their Zestimates and with that, they started to very slowly provide to the consumer a more transparent way of understanding the market, and how to see not just the value of their home, but also what their neighborhood was doing and how prices were going up and down,” Saunders said.

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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

Housing Wire

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! I have never believed in this concept because of how the housing market credit channels work.

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