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Can first-time homebuyers afford homes today?

Housing Wire

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. The share is collected monthly in the Realtors Confidence Index and includes buyers who purchased primary homes, vacation homes and investors. One such measure is who is entering the market.

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Mortgage credit, and the coming purchase storm

Housing Wire

last month, still hovering near levels previously seen in 2014. “Expected home sales growth this year is still likely to be driven by first-time buyers, spurred by millennials reaching peak first-time homebuyer age,” Kan said. The group’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index remained unchanged at 124.6

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Home prices surge to six-year high in November

Housing Wire

Record low inventory and strong buyer demand once again pushed up the cost of homes in the U.S., November’s numbers mark the greatest annual growth rate since February 2014 and even blew past the 8.4% as prices in November rose 9.5% nationally over the same time last year, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index.

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Can lower mortgage rates stop the housing recession?

Housing Wire

People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. They have to move as well, so a traditional seller is a buyer most of the time when it’s a primary resident owner. However, as we all know, after 2020, things are just more intense. .

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Billionaires Row Continues to be Challenged

Miller Samuel

It's been no secret that super luxury Manhattan sales have been the hardest hit segment of the market since 2014. The introduction of supertalls to the skyline has provided never before expansive views to the buyers. I was asked by the New York Post to provide a snapshot of this submarket.

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Rate buydowns are the cat’s meow in today’s market

Housing Wire

FBC Mortgage recorded originations of about $8 billion in 2022, including its joint venture volume, Nunziata said, adding that about 70% of that volume “was new construction.” You can see that’s a really big impact for that first-time buyer, giving them the ability to kind of ease into that payment.” in November, down from a 9.2%

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Homebuilders up the incentives to bring buyers to the table

Housing Wire

Homebuilder confidence slid again in September, hitting its lowest level since May 2014 with the exception of the spring of 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Monday. For 21% of respondents, however, “nothing” had improved.

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