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Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009

Housing Wire

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.

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Trillions in equity vanished from the housing market in the third quarter

Housing Wire

High mortgage rates and looming economic uncertainty caused trillions in equity to evaporate from the housing market in the third quarter of 2022, according to Black Knight ’s mortgage monitor report. That is – by far – the largest quarterly decline on record by dollar value, and the largest since 2009 on a percentage basis.

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What a dip in mortgage demand says about the housing market

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates are now firmly above the 5% mark , at the highest level since 2009, depressing both purchase and refinance applications. The post What a dip in mortgage demand says about the housing market appeared first on HousingWire. Interest in residential mortgage loans fell 8.3% from a year ago.

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Opinion: The ripple effect on the U.S. housing market from China’s real estate crisis

Housing Wire

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. in 2008 and 2009. Like a slow-motion train wreck at first, it is now definitively off the rails and heading over a cliff. Following a pattern eerily similar to the U.S.

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Millennials struggle to compete with boomers for homes

Housing Wire

From 2009 to 2019, the share of recent buyers who are 60 years and old grew 47% , while the share of recent buyers ages 18-39 fell by 13%. In addition, the median age of a homebuyer who completed their purchase within the past year rose from 40 in 2009 to 44 in 2019. housing market,” Tucker said in a statement.

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Housing Market Down But Not Out- January Newsletter

DW Slater Company

What’s happening in the housing markets? Mortgage rates impact housing as they affect buying power. As we look at the housing market for 2022, a clear shift has occurred. Christensen Law Firm Keeping Housing Above Water – Housing Notes Was This Home Overimproved or Underimproved?

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A record 82% of consumers reported that it’s a “bad time to buy” a home

Housing Wire

The HPSI — which tracks the housing market and consumer confidence to sell or buy a home — rose a mere 0.8 Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) group noted that an extremely limited number of existing homes available for sale continues to define the feature of today’s housing market. points to 66.8