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Employment gains could help housing inventory

Housing Wire

Sectors that were hit hardest by the pandemic led job growth last month, with jumps in leisure, hospitality, public and private education and construction – good signs for the housing industry. Despite increased rate of tech adoption, the mortgage industry still has room for continued development and processes. Labor Department.

Inventory 498
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Economists cautiously optimistic as unemployment rate falls to 6.9%

Housing Wire

Residential construction employment (including specialty trade contractors) posted another large increase this month, with job gains of 24,000, which Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae , said is a welcome sign for a sector dealing with supply constraints. “Six But despite residential construction employment climbing back to only 0.8%

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New home sales make it clear: Housing is in a recession

Housing Wire

This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. Since the summer of 2020, I have genuinely believed the housing market could change once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%. In response, they stalled construction for 30 months.

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Low housing inventory a win for homebuilders

Housing Wire

However, with active listings now near all-time lows, the builders’ new homes still have more value in the housing market than what we saw in previous decades. Back in 2007 — after existing home sales got as low as we have seen in the recent data as the chart below shows — total active listings were above 4 million.

Inventory 545
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Only 70,000 new homes available for sale

Housing Wire

housing market. And with total active house listings in America near all-time lows, that is all we have for completed units for sale. From Census: New home sales: Sales of new single‐family houses in April 2023 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 683,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S.

Inventory 516
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Homebuilders still need lower mortgage rates

Housing Wire

What is happening with homebuilders and the new home sales sector as we head into the spring housing market ? 291,000 homes are still under construction: 5.7 The builders actually lucked out here because back in 2007, we had over 4 million active listings of existing home, which are usually cheaper than comparable new homes.

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New home sales defy recession calls

Housing Wire

But a bigger story here is that the builders’ biggest competition isn’t other builders — it’s the number of existing homes on the market. In 2007, we had more than 4 million total active listings, which was too much supply for the builders to compete effectively. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.