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Mortgage market affordability and inventory challenges

Housing Wire

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. Let’s start with the good news.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. How I look at rates is intertwined with how I look at the bond market.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2024 housing market and rate forecast

Housing Wire

The 2023 housing market faced one of the same roadblocks we saw in 2022: mortgage rates were too high for home sales growth. Every Saturday I publish a weekly housing market tracker with forward-looking data and insights so you can adjust quickly to market conditions. If the 10-year yield gets above 4.25%, the U.S.

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

As I have stressed for months, the new home sales levels are historically low and don’t account for the cancellation rate. Just like in the existing home sales market, when sales are low, anything positive on the rate side can move the market in a positive direction. months and below, this is an excellent market for builders.

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December Real Estate Market Update

Listing Spark

Across the major markets in Texas, our December real estate market update shows clear data points that we are ending the year in one of the strongest seller’s markets we have seen in modern history. . What’s driving the strength of our Texas real estate market? Months of Inventory (1.2 Months of Inventory (1.2

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The homebuilders got lucky this time

Housing Wire

There is one simple reason for this: it’s not 2008. They have less competition as they are working from low sales levels in today’s housing market. In an odd twist of fate, the delays due to COVID-19 are currently an infrastructure and jobs program for Americans in the construction industry.

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Existing home sales are working from a historic low bar

Housing Wire

It happened in 2008 and then didn’t happen again until 2023. Something notable about this report: Total active listings as the NAR tracks them almost broke under 1 million again. Our tracker articles have a lot more details about the current weekly market and we publish those each Saturday. from December 2022 ($366,500).