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. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. To that I say, timing is everything in real estate. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? However, mortgage rates have fallen more than 1% since the recent highs, so it’s time to look at the data to explain how to interpret it.

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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! “The principal factor was the rapid increase in mortgage rates, which hurt housing affordability and reduced incentives for homeowners to list their homes. . Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Home prices are now posting the biggest monthly declines since January 2009, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor report from Black Knight. 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. as of Sept.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Lower interest rates make mortgages more accessible, paving the way for more buyers into the market and potentially resulting in increased demand and higher prices. Rising interest rates, however, mean higher mortgage payments, and can dampen buyer enthusiasm or affordability , slow down sales or lead to dropping home prices.

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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. Then, the mortgage interest rates were in the low-4% range.

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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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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

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. First, we must define what we mean by recession.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

In a shrinking mortgage market, fee pressures are the main challenge for appraisers, according to a new survey from the National Association of Realtors. Similar to 2022, some 63% of non-appraiser members cited a lack of inventory among their greatest obstacles, followed by rising prices and declining affordability (54%).

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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

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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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

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

JUNE 28, 2022

Imagine if mortgage rates didn’t rise this year. We are still showing double-digit home-price growth trends in the recent data as it takes time for higher mortgage rates to really increase supply back to normal levels. Even today, the MBA purchase application index is below 2008 levels. This happened in March, and thankfully so.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Mortgage interest rates have risen quickly in the past few months further eroding affordability. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market. In 2008, 49% of Realtors had a client with a distressed sale, today it is only 1%.

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Listing Spark

JUNE 21, 2022

The real estate industry has been experiencing some shifting trends lately, and when compared to the last crash, there are plenty of factors that make this time different from 2008. Back then, terrible lending regulations, a surplus of inventory, and little to no equity for homeowners was a recipe for disaster. in April and 8% in May.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

Older Americans are sitting on more than $12 trillion in home equity, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)/ Riskspan Reverse Mortgage Market Index. Today’s market includes mortgage rates of above 6%, low inventory and elevated home prices, all contributing to affordability problems.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? Now don’t get me wrong: demand is better in 2020 and 2021 than in any single year from 2008 to 2019.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

VRM Mortgage Services is a company born during a very different era for our industry. Keith founded the company in 2006 and Dr. Travis-Johnson joined in 2008. They were the first ones to introduce a secured line of credit for home mortgages,” recalled Travis-Johnson, who worked on the team responsible for marketing that product.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. This is a lot different than 2008 where you needed a credit score and a heartbeat to get a mortgage. An additional 21% closed 1.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Given the current housing inventory crisis, it might surprise people to realize this: we built too many homes during the housing bubble years. Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. million line in the sand has been this: Home prices grow above that 23% level: check Mortgage rates spike higher: check.

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D Fritz Appraisals

JUNE 28, 2022

This significant increase came about due to the unprecedented combination of: All time low mortgage rates. Significantly reduced housing inventory. While low mortgage rates created higher demand, the lack of available homes led to price increases and over-bidding. Higher disposable household income .

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

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. Mortgage rates fell last week as we started the week at 6.65% and got as low as 6.49% to end the week at 6.55%. Mortgage rates went above 6.25%, then declined back to 5% then spiked back to 7.37%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

On the other hand, mortgage rates have gone down more than 1% since Oct. The builders’ stock prices have done well as mortgage rates have fallen , and this illustrates the simplicity of the homebuilders’ position: their story is really about mortgage rates and moving products. months and above. But since Oct.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

You know, the one that says we have too much inventory and millions of vacant homes in the U.S.? The truth is, it’s not 2008 all over again. I understand the lure of the housing 2008 story. Imagine what the total housing market would look like if mortgage rates were at 5% today.

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Listing Spark

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sellers are also willing to offer concessions. What mortgage options should you be looking out for? We’ll dive into everything you need to know about current rates and loan products, with Justin Hrabovsky, top 1% mortgage lender. What can historic mortgage rates teach us about expectations for current rates.

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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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Eppraisal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There is a lot of buzz among the general public as to if and when there will be a real estate market crash like the one in 2008. According to an article on Bankrate.com, written by Jeff Ostrowski, "Mortgage rates plumbed to new depths in January 2021, setting all-time lows south of 3 percent." There wasn't a lack of inventory either.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mortgage rate shot up again last week as the bond market continues to grapple with a growing economy in the run up to the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 5.55% a year ago at this time. Other indices showed even higher mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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. Homebuilders’ for-sale inventory and months’ supply The seasonally-adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of January was 439,000.

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What should buyers and sellers be doing right now? How the housing market affects the rest of the economy How to approach the current housing market as a seller Final advice for buyers in the current housing market Are buyers pulling out of contracts at the last minute? How to vet real estate agents as a seller.

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Cornerstone

MARCH 12, 2021

The long answer: Here are several solid reasons why: Housing inventory remains at record lows , while buyer demand has reached record highs. A prospective home seller is looking at a great opportunity to sell rapidly and at a lucrative price. In a market this competitive, a seller has an advantage. Housing prices have increased.

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