Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

The housing market continues to cool amid high mortgage rates , low inventory and rising property insurance rates. Elevated mortgage rates and low inventory As of August 17, mortgage rates surpassed 7% as U.S. bond yields hit their highest level since 2008. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) suggested a 2.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

Housing inventory increased by 1,339 homes nationwide. The weekly inventory data, which had fallen faster than I had anticipated the last few weeks, has now seen a slight uptick. As you can see below, the waterfall dive in existing home sales has taken us toward the level of 2007-2008 monthly home sales. million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. Inventory rising, historically low.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

The previous economic expansion from 2008 to 2019 had the weakest housing recovery ever following the bust. If you ignore that big move in the second half of 2020, you can see that we currently do not have a credit boom, but rather solid demand from replacement buyers. The post Why aren’t builders creating more housing inventory?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That means Americans are more bearish on buying a home than they were during the home price crash following the 2008 recession. Renovated Inventory to the Rescue. Top Markets for Renovated Inventory. Auction.com buyer Steve Johnson purchases and renovates distressed homes in Georgia and Tennessee. Among 75 U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. Active inventory fell 1,109, and new listing data made a lovely comeback week to week but was still noticeably down year over year. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

There is a desperate lack of inventory in the housing market right now, which is driving up home prices at an unsustainably rapid pace, MBA’s senior vice president and chief economist Mike Fratantoni noted. March signified the highest number of residential construction workers since 2008. Presented by: CreditXpert.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

buyer hovers around $2,866, an all-time high according to Redfin. Of course, high mortgage rates and home prices don’t harm all-cash buyers and move-up buyers as greatly. In Newark, buyers need $160,000. Inventory remains one of the driving forces in this difficult housing market. higher than in September 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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.” ” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People’s first reaction was to wonder if this was 2008 all over again. Well, it isn’t 2008, but this type of loan does have risk — and it’s the risk that is traditional among all late economic cycle lending in America when the loan requires low or no downpayment. That is what has happened here in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, a time of turbulence in the real estate market. Since October of 2022, the share of buyers who are purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one quarter of the market. One such measure is who is entering the market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2023

Weekly active inventory grew slowly again and purchase apps were down week to week again. This happened as expected, except we had a lousy bond auction, which meant too much debt supply came online with insufficient buyers. For those calling for a massive inventory spike since 2008, the last few years have not gone as planned.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Today’s housing market is very different from the one that led up to the 2008 financial crisis and ultimately a 20 to 40% home price correction. Inventory is still very low by historic standards and buyers who are able to handle higher mortgage rates are still finding the market very competitive.

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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. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. Case in point, purchase application data is already below 2008 levels today. million listings.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

I have separated my work into two different time frames: 2008-2019 and 2020-2024. In the years 2008-2019 we saw the weakest housing recovery ever. 2012: What they said: Shadow inventory will cause prices to fall. The reality: Inventory broke down in 2012, and the monthly supply data got below 6.0

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

If we had a massive credit boom-to-bust, inventory would have skyrocketed in 2022. NAR Total Inventory Data going back to 1982. housing market inventory channels have changed due to how the U.S. This is not, nor can it ever be, like 2008. If it was like 2008, you’re about four to six years too early in 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

However, the recent softness in home prices has raised questions about whether this is, “2008 all over again!” Mortgage underwriting standards were much tighter for the past decade than in the era preceding the 2008 financial crisis. This represents a significant differentiating factor from the last housing cycle.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

His recent article, “Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?” takes a deep dive into what the heck is going on with purchase applications, housing demand and inventory levels. This article, for example, asks why, if purchase applications are down to 2009 levels, are inventory levels still so freaking low?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

“For most parts of the country, home prices are holding steady since available inventory is extremely low,” Yun said. While the unprecedented uptick in mortgage rates led to a lack of demand from buyers, it has also acted as a deterrent for homeowners, who are hesitant to list their homes for sale in a tough market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The housing market has not seen such a significant two-month drop in prices since shortly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in winter of 2008, Black Knight said on Monday. “Historically low inventory – along with record low interest rates – was one of the key drivers behind U.S. months of for-sale inventory to 3.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Few things affect the real estate market more than the rise and fall of interest rates , which has a ripple effect that directly influences everything from buyer behavior to market trends. How interest rates impact your clients Let’s look at how interest rates can impact buyers, sellers or homeowners looking to refinance.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

There are similarities and significant differences between the housing recession we’ve seen this year versus 2008, and looking at specific factors in both timeframes gives us an idea of what to expect in 2023. Let’s look at the recessionary factors we see now versus 2008. Housing inventory. Home sales. history.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Once total inventory levels reach 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market. As reported in the latest NAR Existing-Home Sales , inventory still remains in tight supply, which means homes are still moving at a fast past despite the recent rise in rates and home prices.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

million housing starts, not anytime from 2008-2019. The monthly supply of new homes was mostly higher every month in the previous expansion (2008-2019) than any period from 1996-2005. Except this time around, we do not have speculation buyers and a credit bubble — just good demographics and low mortgage rates. million a year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. We were told that population growth is slowing, we were told that Americans would panic sell and that massive inventory would hit the marketplace once rates got to 4%. Wait, what? I use the 1.52-1.93

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Others have expressed concerns that we are headed for a housing crash, like in 2008. Let’s talk about the difference between today’s market and the one during the years leading up to the bursting of the housing bubble in the Great Recession of 2008. THE RISE IN HOME PRICES IN THE YEARS LEADING TO 2008.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2021

Record low inventory and strong buyer demand once again pushed up the cost of homes in the U.S., “With buyer demand continuing to outpace the previous year’s levels amid historically lowest inventory of for-sale homes, the pressure on home prices is going to fuel home price growth in the first half of 2021,” Happ said. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Even today, the MBA purchase application index is below 2008 levels. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. This is because the biggest buyers of homes are mortgage buyers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2008, 2009, it was triage. The good news is that there is plenty of demand for vacant properties, from both nonprofit and for-profit buyers. Seeking new inventory sources. The post As vacant foreclosures increase, so does buyer interest appeared first on HousingWire. We were struggling to get control of blocks.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Total inventory levels. NAR: Total Inventory levels 1.22 million Historically inventory levels range between 2 million and 2.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

It’s not time to sound the alarms, and there’s no indication that another housing market crash, circa 2008, is about to happen, but there are signs and signals everywhere suggesting that the decade-long boom in home sales may be running out of steam. To register for the HW+ event, go here. Exacerbating things further, inflation at 8.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

Last week’s listings rate remained super low and available inventory of homes for sale fell again by almost 1% to 410,000, according to Altos Research. HousingWire: How have the current mortgage rate and inventory challenges impacted the direction of Corcoran’s marketing strategies?

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

And there’s another thing that separates the housing market from other markets — the buyer is often also the seller. In most markets, the seller, or supplier, makes their decision about adding supply to the market independent of the buyer, or source of demand, and their decision to buy. years in March 2023, according to recent data.

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McKissock

AUGUST 14, 2022

The housing market has cooled since the intensity of the post-pandemic real estate rush, but the seller’s market we experienced has left us with plenty of discussion about what the nation’s housing inventory looks like. Housing Inventory So Low? In 2008, many people lost their homes when the housing bubble burst. Why Is U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Mortgage rates continued to rise alongside hotter-than-expected inflation numbers this week, exceeding six percent for the first time since late 2008,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. A year ago at this time, rates averaged 2.86%. . The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.12% a year ago.

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