Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023? Mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave. Yes, we found the seasonal bottom for housing inventory on April 14, but this year’s rise in active listings has been tepid at best. Can you imagine the housing market at that point?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. This is good news for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. Also, I believed the risk to the housing market was if home prices grew more than 23% over the five years of 2020-2024.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is alarming because this was the moment last year when the market turned south. It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September. This “higher for longer” conventional wisdom is working its way through the housing market. There are now 519,000 single-family homes on the market across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings. Days on market is also trending back to what is more normal for our market as well.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008. On top of more legitimate buyers, we fixed the credit markets, meaning housing credit looks fantastic. Demographics also play a role here.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

In Denver in particular, new listings increased 29.12% month-over-month and 22.63% year-over-year. Active listings at month’s end rose 13.14% to 5,511 homes, an astounding 45.87% gain year-over-year. As a result, sellers who are winning in this market spent time making sure their homes are in show-ready condition.

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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! This is the biggest story in housing. . Confused by this? economic history. .

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. However, we have entered a tricky period in housing economics where we might have to take this premise more seriously since mortgage rates recently got as low as 2.5% The parts of the U.S.

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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. Let’s start with the good news.

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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. From the index : I know it seems strange, but existing home sales are falling, and the monthly supply of new homes is at 10.9 million listings.

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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. The quick takeaway here is that total active listings in the U.S. The NAR total active listings data is between 2 million and 2.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

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).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Despite the population decline, Illinois’ housing market remains relatively strong. The state has an Altos Research Market Action Index score of 44, which is above the national score of 39. Altos considers anything above 30 to be indicative of a seller’s market. It’s depressing,” Laricy said of the downtown market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates were lower in late 2022 and early 2023 with a higher inflation growth rate and the Fed still hiking because the bond market anticipated a Fed pivot or a recession, neither of which happened. This data line can grow faster as long as people still list their homes weekly.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Looking at the latest NAHB/Wells Fargo homebuilder confidence data and builder stock prices, I can say the homebuilders got very lucky this time around in the middle of a housing recession. There is one simple reason for this: it’s not 2008. While the two charts above are falling noticeably, housing completion data is slowly moving up.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2023

For my 2023 forecast , my range on the 10-year yield has been between 3.21%-4.25%, emphasizing that the bond yields can go lower than 3.21% only if the labor market breaks. The labor market breaking to me is if jobless claims on a four-week moving average go over 323,000 ; currently, that data is 231,000.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

How’s the market, you ask? 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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

SmartZip uses predictive analytics to pinpoint likely sellers from 6 to 18 months in advance, offering a huge advantage in today’s low inventory market. SmartZip’s analytics are based on over 250 data points related to the properties and homeowners in your target market. Then, it deploys marketing campaigns on your behalf.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 10, 2023

This marks the introduction of a new feature. Each month, this blog will publish a fresh assessment of the King County area housing market. A patch of foul weather and persistent economic challenges chilled an already cold housing market. The bar is so low on listings and sales data that one might trip over it.

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Texas real estate market has come crashing down. Days on the market are up, home prices are down, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Is that the case for all major Texas housing markets? What should they expect in this housing market? 00:02:50] Peaking into the Fall 2022 Austin housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

All year, the strength of homebuyer demand and the tight supply of homes for sale has meant that the market pretty rapidly found a floor on the home-price correction of 2022. If you were looking at the market in the fall of 2022, you would have expected home prices to continue to fall further in 2023.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

Memories of the Great Recession still linger for anyone linked to the real estate industry – including the estimated seven million households that lost their homes to foreclosures around 2008-2010. Then the housing bubble burst. market during the pandemic – and there is great anticipation for strong demand.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 31, 2024

2023 FORT LAUDERDALE Real Estate Market Recap Fort Lauderdale home sales decreased by 19.8% The categorical breakdowns are listed in the infographic to the right. This is in spite of a decrease in new listings, and overall homes listed were at their lowest level since 2008 in South Florida.

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Cornerstone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There were analysts who expressed concern that once forbearance plans expired, the real estate market could see a foreclosure surge, similar to what followed the housing bubble 15 years prior. The housing crash of 2008 resulted in more than nine million households losing their homes to a short sale, foreclosure, or bank surrender.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

NEW YORK – The U.S. housing market is in an uneasy state of equilibrium. The start of the year, of course, is when homeowners and real estate agents start to bring new inventory to market. Clearly, the amount of supply on the market is still extraordinarily low relative to demand. It would take just 3.3

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Listing Spark

DECEMBER 23, 2020

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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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 14, 2023

The opening months of the Seattle/King County housing market can best be expressed as sparks of activity within a mostly tentative purchasing environment. Sellers who priced their homes appropriately enjoyed busy open houses in their first weekend on the market followed by multiple offers.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There is a feeling of Halloween in the real estate world because this housing market is a bit scary these days. The market is spooking many potential buyers and sellers thanks to stubbornly high mortgage interest rates. fewer new listings, the rate of sales rose 1.7% While there were 5.8% There are 7.4%

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 11, 2023

The Seattle/King County housing market inched forward – and a little sideways – as the number of new and unsold listings continued to expand in June while fresh signs of a slowdown approached. The county saw the combined number of single-family, townhome and condo listings increase in June by 4.4% up 5% from May.

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