Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. in December 2022, its highest level since 2007 and its fastest rise in more than 40 years. Inventory What does that mean for housing?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. The Federal Reserve wanted to see the bidding wars end and the days on the market grow.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. From NAR : The median existing home price for all housing types in March was $393,500, an increase of 4.8% All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

As the spring selling season kicks off, many educated sellers know that buyers are experiencing spring fever and are tired of sitting on the fence watching home prices increase. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. To that I say, timing is everything in real estate. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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! Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. You need a buyer and seller,” Brown said. mortgage insurance market in 2023 to deteriorate. Fitch Ratings also expects the outlook for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The premise of a mortgage rate lockdown is simple: so many American households have such low mortgage rates that some will never move once rates rise, which then locks up housing inventory. Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. I have documented the history of these housing price crash addicts for a decade now. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. Active inventory rose by 823 single-family homes and new listing data is trending at all-time lows.

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 21, 2022

In early March it was becoming clear that the market was changing from a frenzied post-pandemic scene to one where rising mortgage rates would slow it down and help inventory finally rise back up. As a result, there’s less demand for the available inventory, creating more price adjustments. The same will be true for sellers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

months’ worth of housing inventory in the U.S. We have a workable range for 2023 sales in the existing home sales market between 4 million and 4.6 NAR: Total housing inventory registered at the end of March was 980,000 units, up 1.0% Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month We only have 2.6 economy.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time.

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Listing Spark

JUNE 27, 2023

National Landscape: Indications of a Seller’s Market As detailed in a recent article by Matt Carter published on June 9, 2023, a national sentiment heavily favoring sellers prevails 1. “The housing market has tilted sharply in favor of sellers amid increasing demand and ongoing low housing inventory.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. I give more details in this interview on why I believe the housing market dynamics shifted on Nov. Unsold inventory sits at a 3.5-month

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Three of the biggest topics in housing right now are mortgage rate movements tied to Federal Reserve policymaking, the day-to-day moves in key housing data and forward-looking trends for the housing market. But this means the labor market has to break. He began by looking at fresh inventory data.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

So few single-family homes are for sale in America that just two months of inventory is available across the top 100 metro areas in the country, a historic low. ” “Higher priced” homes in hot housing markets in cities such as Los Angeles, Palm Beach and Phoenix are also increasingly in short supply, the report’s authors found.

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Houston Properties

JANUARY 13, 2021

Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions. Concerned about a housing market crash? SUMMARY: Coming off a record year, the Houston real estate market started 2021 in a seller’s market. KEY RESOURCES: Study Of How Previous Pandemics Affected The Real Estate Market.

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Listing Spark

JUNE 16, 2023

” [00:04:36] Austin real estate sales volume and velocity in April 2023 Austin’s housing market in April saw a decline in new listings and sales volume, but the market remains a seller’s market. However, a decrease in new listings is helping to stave off even higher inventory.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2024

in 2021, hitting the worst level since 2007. “In Whether the overall market has soared or seen just modest gains in recent years, investors have missed out on the action.” Lack of inventory and ever-rising home prices are the main factors impacting the home flipping business. That’s down from 28.1% in 2022 and 35.7%

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

housing market. And with total active house listings in America near all-time lows, that is all we have for completed units for sale. Just like with the existing home sales market, all that is happening is that home sales stabilized from a low level. The Inventory for homes completed is at 70,000 = 1.23

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They have less competition as they are working from low sales levels in today’s housing market. The truth is that if mortgage rates fell below 5.875% and kept going lower, everyone’s housing predictions would need to be revised this year because the builders can sell their homes with lower mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

At the Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday, Chairman Jay Powell said more housing supply is coming online. We only have 72,000 new homes completed for sale in a country of 335 million people, and active inventory is near all-time lows. Where is Powell’s housing supply coming from? comes from the existing home sales market.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JANUARY 11, 2023

A Look At The Housing Market in 2022. Over the past three years, the real estate market has seen unprecedented milestones. From record-high sale prices to record-low inventory, the market has shown us that just when we think we know what will happen it will show us something different. Average Days on Market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

What is happening with homebuilders and the new home sales sector as we head into the spring housing market ? This makes them much more efficient sellers than existing homeowners, who need to find another house once they sell. We have had some conflicting data points recently. months of supply.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

As we can see in the chart below, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) data, which surveys homebuilders, is above 50 again. This means homebuilders are feeling confident enough to issue more housing permits , as we have seen growth in single-family permits the last few months. million, down year over year too.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

They have no emotional ties to houses and don’t need to sell a home to buy another one. They’re effective sellers and don’t want to create a backlog of completed units for sale because that would ruin their business model. Some people prefer something other than the current active existing inventory. Now on to the report.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

This trend is why we’ve called it a soft landing for the housing market. Inventory As a result, the seasonal inventory build is slow and on a normal cycle. There are 485,000 single-family homes on the market in the U.S. Inventory growth seems to have a few more weeks to go. Home prices declined subsequently.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

In its most recent annual report to Congress, November 2020, the Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ) published its “capital ratio,” a measure of capital reserves to insurance-in-force held within the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund). By way of example, seller-funded down payment loans prevalent in the early 2000s had a $16.5

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

The housing market is cooling-off. Two percent of newly originated mortgages were originated to subprime borrowers, a sharp contrast to the 12% average seen between 2003-2007.”. As housing demand wanes due to rising mortgage rates and high home prices, the housing market has likely started to balance out.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 15, 2022

When Will the Housing Market Change? So if someone bought a house in early January of 2021 and put 20% down, they would have nearly 40% equity in the home by the end of December. Now all the above factors are finding a place to land, and everyone is asking: When will the market change? Available Inventory.

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Assurance Financial

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The real estate market has fluctuated significantly over the past few decades, with a median sales price difference of $195,900 in the last 20 years alone. With these constant housing market shifts, it can be challenging to determine the best time to buy or sell a house. Marketing Strategies. Buyer Expectations.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

The typical seasonal spring in its step has been replaced by a slow shuffle as the Seattle/King County residential market tries to find its rhythm in a challenging economic environment. Falling new inventory is constraining transaction volumes while also supporting higher home prices. Where are all the sellers? last month.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

On Tuesday the FHFA House Price Index hit an all-time high. In this article I’ll explain why this is happening and why we still have a savagely unhealthy housing market. I also recently joined Mike Simonsen’s Top of Mind podcast to talk about what’s happened in housing over the past year.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

housing starts, when builders break ground and lay a foundation, are forecast to finish this year at 1.04M single-family homes, the first time since 2007 the figure will exceed a million. Economists forecast housing starts will rise a promising 5% in 2022. Who said this is a sellers’ market? The cupboards are bare.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We are starting to see all of those signs following the release of September housing data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Unfortunately for buyers, a combination of the typical seasonal trend and higher borrowing costs has slowed housing market activity to an excruciatingly slow pace – and there are concerning signs ahead.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Single-family housing starts continued their seven-month climb in November, coming in at the highest level since 2007, according to the Census Bureau. Housing starts rose 1.2% Single-family housing starts rose 0.4% Single-family housing starts rose 0.4% in November compared to October and are up 12.8% The reason?

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