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

MAY 7, 2023

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. We had a lot of drama over the week between Federal Reserve meetings and banking stress, and mortgage rates and purchase applications both fell.

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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. Mortgage rates. Home price s.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. The other focus should be where mortgage rates go; only a little happened last week. didn’t go into recession until 2008. The total NAR inventory is still 980,000.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

The days on market are back to a teenager level in the existing home sales market, which means I can officially say we are back to a savagely unhealthy housing market! Nothing good happens in the housing market when the days on market are at a teenager level or lower. million in May.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September. Obviously, mortgage rates have been stubbornly over 7% for a couple of months. That’s a change in expectation of mortgage rates. Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mortgage rates fell along with bond yields, showing that mortgage rates peaked on Oct. 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.

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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

MAY 8, 2024

After 2010, qualified mortgage laws were in place, meaning everyone getting a mortgage has to be able to repay the loan. 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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates have risen recently but they could be much worse than they are today. Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for housing in 2024. The most important data line for me, along with mortgage rates , is jobless claims data because I value labor data over inflation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

Thanks to high mortgage rates , mortgage refinance rates, and even higher home prices , the vibe among homebuyers has been fairly bleak these past couple months. In Fannie Mae ‘s most recent National Housing Survey, only 17% of consumers said they think it’s a good time to buy a home.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2023

Last week ended with a wild ride for mortgage rates. We anticipated the two inflation reports could help mortgage rates, however, we had a bad bond auction last Thursday, and the 10-year yield rose sharply. This pushed yields higher Thursday and Friday to move mortgage rates to 7.19%. We saw an example of that last week.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.” This is the biggest story in housing. .

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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

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.

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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. This is also why we created the weekly Housing Market Tracker article.

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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. From Redfin.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

It happened in 2008 and then didn’t happen again until 2023. We don’t have any data that shows sales are crashing from this low level: this is key when looking at the future because it does give us a place to grow sales as long as mortgage rates fall. This is a positive for housing in 2024 as most sellers are buyers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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. While the two charts above are falling noticeably, housing completion data is slowly moving up. I am not shocked that forward-looking housing data works again.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

While the homebuilders weren’t surprised by the better-than-estimated new home sales report released Friday, some people were a bit shocked. 9 up until the early part of February as mortgage rates fell from 7.37% to 5.99%. To combat higher mortgage rates, builders have been cutting prices and buying down rates to move product.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

Falling new inventory is constraining transaction volumes while also supporting higher home prices. It’s a dynamic not often seen in our area and it – along with stubbornly high mortgage interest rates – has generated a rollercoaster ride of data that would make Six Flags jealous. housing market appears to have hit its nadir.

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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. After the mortgage rate spike in September 2022, we got significantly more bearish on home prices for 2023. If mortgage rates increase to the 7.5%

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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. Eastside homes are on the market for a median of 26 days and 20 in Seattle.

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Is that the case for all major Texas housing markets? What should they expect in this housing market? We’ll dive into the state of the Texas real estate market with Real Estate Real Fast host Aaron Jistel. 00:02:50] Peaking into the Fall 2022 Austin housing market. Episode highlights. Key takeaways.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 31, 2024

This is in spite of a decrease in new listings, and overall homes listed were at their lowest level since 2008 in South Florida. In 2024, we expect the Fort Lauderdale housing market to continue making its way through an adjustment.

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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. Adjustable-rate mortgages were cheap and easy to acquire, home prices were artificially inflated and supply plentiful.

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Cornerstone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When the pandemic first hit in early 2020, mortgage forbearance plans were announced, allowing homeowners in crisis to temporarily stop payments. 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.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

NEW YORK – The U.S. housing market is in an uneasy state of equilibrium. Demand has plummeted as mortgage rates hit a two-decade high, but prices haven’t declined much in part because supply remains correspondingly low. 34% of the total – are mortgage free, according to data compiled by real estate analytics firm Attom.

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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%

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Worsening affordability issues and lower-than-usual inventory have prompted many consumers to watch this housing market from the sidelines – without the picket lines. October figures from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service strongly suggest prospective buyers and sellers are taking a wait-and-see approach. Among all U.S.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 22, 2022

Sales are down now due to major mortgage rate increases crushing buyer affordability, and other buyers are pulling out of the home search with concerns of buying at the top of the market. As the market has cooled over the past few months with the increase in mortgage rates, they still haven’t started to fall.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 11, 2023

A patch of foul weather and persistent economic challenges chilled an already cold housing market. The Northwest MLS monthly housing report described it best: “December ends with a ‘whimper’”. The number of Pendings (1206) has fallen for five consecutive months and is the lowest of any month since December 2008 (1167).

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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. or less.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

DID SOMEBODY SAY, ‘HOUSING BUBBLE?’. Are we in a housing bubble? The housing market has become bubbly,” said economist Enrique Martinez-Garcia of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He was one of the authors of a recent report that found signs of a housing bubble in the real estate market.

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