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Days on market grow despite low inventory for existing homes

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported today on two trends in existing home sales that we have seen for many months now: sales are declining while total inventory data has fallen directly for the three straight months. Seasonal impacts are the norm with housing, and new listing data is negative 6% year to date.

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

Housing Wire

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I We are seeing a healthy increase in inventory, which we really needed.” Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Changing homebuyer expectations are slowing the housing market

Housing Wire

Meanwhile, the available inventory of unsold homes is growing. This week, inventory grew faster than it did last year at this time. This week was the biggest week of inventory increase all year, with inventory growing by over 9,000 single-family homes. It’s not unusual for a little jump in new listings in September.

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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. Remember, with median sales prices and inventory, it’s very seasonal. Something notable about this report: Total active listings as the NAR tracks them almost broke under 1 million again. However, remember, the dive in inventory is normal at this time of the year.

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What Could Make Home Prices Drop in 2023?

Empire Appraisal Group

Florida Realtors. NEW YORK – The U.S. The start of the year, of course, is when homeowners and real estate agents start to bring new inventory to market. As the thinking goes, buyers and sellers often want to get their transactions closed by summer, especially if they have children starting at new schools in September.

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5 reasons you’re not going to see a ‘foreclosure wave’ anytime soon

Cornerstone

The housing crash of 2008 resulted in more than nine million households losing their homes to a short sale, foreclosure, or bank surrender. Today’s market can handle a million (or more) new listings. When the market was flooded with foreclosures in 2008, these homes only added to the surplus of homes listed for sale.

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High Financing Hurdles Lead to Low Housing Activity in Seattle/King County

Will Springer Realtor

fewer new listings, the rate of sales rose 1.7% Two data points stood out from the latest report by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service: The aforementioned new listings for all homes in the county – 2684 – is at a low not seen for an August since records were shared with brokers (like me) dating back to the mid-1990s. “I

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