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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

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. Seasonal impacts are the norm with housing, and new listing data is negative 6% year to date.

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Why are existing home prices rising when sales are still so low?

Housing Wire

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. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. million, and in 2007, it peaked at 4 million.

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Even with falling rates, the housing market is shaping up to be bad in Q4

Housing Wire

That’s the largest year over year existing home sales decrease since 2007. More potential homebuyers were squeezed out from qualifying for a mortgage in October as mortgage rates climbed higher,” National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. Total housing inventory at the end of October was 1.22

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FED’S ACTIONS TAKE STEAM OUT OF HOUSING MARKET

Will Springer Realtor

Waller went on to say this adjustment is in no way like the horrific housing/financial crises of 2007-2010. That’s according to a survey of 1,002 Hispanic Americans by The National Association of Realtors®. >> Counties in and near Chicago and New York City were seen as the most vulnerable to today’s economic headwinds.

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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. That’s the most since 2007. Active listings as of Sept. A drying up of listings sent inventory figures lower.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” That percentage was last seen in September 2007 – yes, at the start of the housing crisis (as the chart shows). ” The increased number of listings and slight slow-down of the market have helped boost inventory numbers. .

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

>> The lack of inventory to keep real estate moving is confirmed with the latest data on U.S. They have declined for two consecutive months, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The excess of inventory that occurred in 2007, 2008 and ’09, was an anomaly,” said Marci Rossell, former chief economist for CNBC.