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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

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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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

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 inventory crisis continues in 2022

Housing Wire

Early in 2021, when I was talking about how people should worry about home prices overheating, I had a glimmer of hope that maybe toward the end of 2021 we would be spared another seasonal collapse of inventory. Inventory always falls in the fall and winter, but I hoped it wouldn’t be a repeat of 2020.

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Pending home sales fall to their lowest level in two decades

Housing Wire

As mortgage rates edged near multi-decade highs, pending home sales declined 1.5% in October on a month-over-month basis, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Pending home sales in October fell to their lowest level since 2001. down from 72.6 in September. New home sales fell 5.6%

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Pending home sales up slightly in September: NAR

Housing Wire

in September despite significant affordability hurdles weighing on the market, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Despite the slight gain, pending contracts remain at historically low levels due to the highest mortgage rates in 20 years,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said in a statement.

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Opinion: Here’s the latest data on what Realtors are witnessing in the housing market

Housing Wire

Mortgage interest rates have risen quickly in the past few months further eroding affordability. The monthly Realtors Confidence Index helps to dispel many of the myths and cut through the noise of what is currently happening in the market. In 2008, 49% of Realtors had a client with a distressed sale, today it is only 1%.

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Existing Home Sales Plunge to 13-Year Low as Mortgage Rates Surge

Eyes on Housing

Existing home sales in September fell to lowest level since October 2010 as limited inventory and higher mortgage rates continued to weigh on homebuyers, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). A resurgence of mortgage. Read More ›

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