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Opinion: Here’s the latest data on what Realtors are witnessing in the housing market

Housing Wire

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index helps to dispel many of the myths and cut through the noise of what is currently happening in the market. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market.

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Home sales are going to nosedive in 2023, Fannie Mae says

Housing Wire

“Given the ongoing tension between potential homebuyers and home-sellers at the moment, we believe the pace of sales is likely to slow even further, too,” he added. million, according to the National Association of Realtors. contraction in real GDP in 2023. Still, this was a further decline from July, and sales were down 19.9%

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Rising insurance costs, ample inventory create a unique market in Southwest Florida

Housing Wire

“I think one of the major trends we are seeing is that our overall inventory is up 60% year over year compared to 2023,” said PJ Smith, president of the Naples Area Board of Realtors and the broker-owner of Naples Golf to Gulf Real Estate. “We We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” It is very busy.

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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. Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale. This is a positive for housing in 2024 as most sellers are buyers.

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Changing homebuyer expectations are slowing the housing market

Housing Wire

I interviewed Dr. Jessica Lautz from the National Association of Realtors for the Altos podcast and we talked about the prospect of 8% mortgage rates. It shows obvious slowing demand, but is also a reflection of the fact that most of the year we had more buyers than sellers of residential real estate. Now, you’re looking at 7.5%

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NFT mania and the future of the home sale

Housing Wire

Absolutely, I will offer an NFT option to sellers within the next year,” said Richard Hopen, a Compass agent in Short Hills, New Jersey. The Gulfport seller, Heckler explained, created a limited liability company that held ownership of the home. Propy then guided the seller into minting the LLC as an NFT.

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How to Take Advantage of the Cooler Summer Market

Lamacchia Realty

The informed consumer should not be misled into thinking that this means we’re going to endure a major housing correction or 2008-like scenario. The book of mortgages that have been written in the last 10 years are the strongest book of mortgages in any single decade ever and the opposite was the case leading up to 2008.