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Buyers and sellers agree: it’s a good time to enter the housing market

Housing Wire

Though prospective buyers revealed slight wariness in September, Fannie Mae reported buyer morale gained 6% in October, with 60% of respondents saying it is a good time to buy a home while those who believe it is a bad time fell to 35%. Compared to this time last year, the HPSI is still down 7.1 increase the same time next year.

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. One of the critical data lines that I want to see improve this year is days on market.

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You can’t buy what’s not for sale in the housing market

Housing Wire

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory grows

Housing Wire

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. The market is a bit calmer now than when Silicon Valley Bank failed , evident in how the stock and bond markets traded this last week. While the labor market is getting less tight, it’s not broken yet.

Inventory 516
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Incenter Lender Services promotes Sara Parrish to COO

Housing Wire

” Incenter has businesses focused on capital markets, loan diligence, student lending, insurance, property tax, accounting and marketing. According to Parrish, some of Incenter’s clients, such as IMBs, face pressures from the market downturn. Founder Tom Piercy took over the chief growth officer role.

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Housing Market Tracker: Inventory finally rises

Housing Wire

Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? The red line is where NAR believes a balanced market is, at six months of supply. As you can in the chart below, the monthly supply data shows we have no forced selling action in the housing market today, unlike the 2006-2011 period.

Inventory 544
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An inside look at local housing markets across the country

Housing Wire

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Bluffton, South Carolina. Greenwich, Connecticut. Gillette, Wyoming.