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The homebuilders got lucky this time

Housing Wire

However, the glaring difference today versus the recession of 2008, is that in 2007 the builders had to deal with over 4 million active listings as competition for their pricey new homes. This is why construction workers haven’t been laid off while other jobs in the housing market have been. months of supply.

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

Others – Meritage Homes (+20% YoY in 2021) and Tri Point Homes (+15-30% YoY in 2022) – expect tremendous growth of new communities. And many of the new projects are larger than in years past. Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. That’s the most since 2007. SMILE FOR THE CAMERA.

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Home Prices Rising Toward Record Highs – Again

Will Springer Realtor

The county saw the combined number of single-family, townhome and condo listings increase in June by 4.4% While that percentage may appear strong, it’s nothing compared to the April-to-May rise of 18%, signaling a probable cooling of new listings in the future. New single-family-home listings rose 3.8%

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

just as Google opens another office building in Kirkland and Microsoft expands its 120-structure Redmond campus with plans for 17 new office buildings. All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” million sq.

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006. million more home listings across the U.S. >> NAHB reported an estimated 15% of all new-construction home sales in the U.S. We are on the right track.

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IS THE HOUSING MARKET HEADED FOR A CRASH?

Will Springer Realtor

There are at least five factors that make this housing environment far different – and more stable – than roughly a decade ago: Low inventory and lack of supply – There were some 4 million homes on the market nationally in July 2007 compared with about 1.1 million people work in residential construction, or about 2.8% of the U.S.