Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

Weekly housing inventory Since new listing data was trending at all-time lows in 2023, some feared we wouldn’t see the typical spring inventory increase. After the last few weeks , we can put that fear aside: we are finally getting the seasonal increase in active listing. This link explains the difference and is worth a read.

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Inventory Housing Market Marketing New Listings 518

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

New listings were trending at the lowest levels ever in 2023, but that should not be the case in 2024. New listings were trending at the lowest levels ever in 2023, but that should not be the case in 2024. Never forget most sellers are buyers of homes as well, especially if the economy isn’t in a job loss recession.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We saw some good growth this week, and hopefully, in 2024, we can close the gap and get back to 2021-2022 data on new listings. That is the critical period for new listing data to grow; remember, most sellers are buyers. Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

NAR Research : First-time buyers were responsible for 28% of sales in October; All-cash sales accounted for 26%; Individual investors purchased 16%; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 21 days in October. We saw new listing data decline when rates got to 6.25% the first time.

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Inventory Marketing Housing Market New Listings 469

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Weekly housing inventory decreased by 6,801, while new listing data is still negative year-over-year. I call this rate lock risk, where some buyers don’t qualify or don’t want to continue the purchase until rates fall again. Rates spiking almost 1% in mere weeks is damaging because it can take some previous buyers out of play.

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Housing Market Marketing Inventory New Listings 446

Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

However, the real positive story here is that even with new listing data trending at an all-time low, we are getting the growth in active listings we traditionally see in the spring and summer. In addition, new listing data turned negative year over year after the second half of 2022.

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Inventory Housing Market Marketing New Listings 407

Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2023

The other big story with housing inventory is that new listing data has been trending negative year over year since the end of June 2022. A traditional seller is also a traditional buyer, and certain homeowners have refused to buy their next home with mortgage rates above 6%.

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Inventory Housing Market Marketing New Listings 454

Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

New listing data collapsed, but we are putting an asterisk on that data line for this week. Now the bad news: new listing data fell so much this week that I am putting an asterisk on this week’s data until we see if this is a trend or just a one-off in the weekly data that can occur from time to time.

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Housing Market Marketing Inventory New Listings 383

Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 28, 2022

The first is that sales could be slowing down while new listings continue to enter the market. The net effect would be an increase in the listing count. The second reason could be that sales are continuing at a normal rate and there is an abnormal spike in new listings. The trend ins Shelby county is similar.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 11, 2023

As the chart shows, a historically large segment of Millennials is inching toward 36, the median age of a first-time home buyer in the U.S. An index score of 100 means that a buyer with a median U.S. The national trend for new construction, however, is generally moving in the opposite direction.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

This created an extreme scarcity of inventory and contributed to elevated prices, but it also led to a 22% decrease in the number of sales, leaving buyers eager. The decline can be attributed partly to buyers grappling with the affordability challenges posed by higher interest rates and continuously escalating prices.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 13, 2024

SETTLEMENT FOLLOW-UP A judge has preliminarily approved the $418M antitrust class-action settlement involving sellers’ compensation to brokers/agents in residential real estate sales. News of the settlement and its impact topped last month’s newsletter. The listing video is mesmerizing. List price: $3.39M ($864/sq.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2023

Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: Active inventory grew 8,914 week to week, even though new listing data is still trending at all-time lows in 2023. In 2022, when the housing market was dealing with a sharp move higher in mortgage rates, the new listing data grew higher than the same week in 2021.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 8, 2021

More buyers are making larger down payments. Buyers in the U.S. >> And in a different metric, Seattle-area home prices have risen 55% from December 2015 to the start of this year, according to Case-Shiller, a home-price index from S&P CoreLogic. million new homes as of the start of this year. BY THE NUMBERS.

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Inventory New Listings HOA Buyers 36

Will Springer Realtor

JULY 8, 2022

Even stock investments, the source of many down payments for buyers, have taken a heavy blow. Any prospective home buyer working outside the tech sector may be watching from the sidelines until the economy becomes less volatile. FOR FIRST-TIME BUYERS, NOW WHAT? The portion of first-time buyers among the pool of U.S.

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