Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

The index plunged from record highs seen in late 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. “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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

Now, after months of plumbing record lows, inventory finally began to rise in March, and it looks likely that we’ll finally notch year-over-year growth sometime in 2022 — a milestone we haven’t seen since fall of 2019. At the pace it’s recovering now, inventory would take about 30 months – September 2024 – to reach pre-pandemic, 2019 levels.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

In the fourth quarter of 2019, the median renter could afford 69% of the homes for sale in Salt Lake City. According to data from Altos Research , the median home price listed in Salt Lake City last week climbed to $785,000, up from about $540,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019. Now, the median renter can only afford 4% of homes.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With the scrutiny of The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and multiple lawsuits concerning how buyers’ brokers get paid, many brokers say it feels like an all-out war on the real estate industry. billion in commissions they paid to buyers’ agents in the past eight years.

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McKissock

JULY 17, 2022

LendingTree analyzed the changes of homebuilding-related variables from 2019 to 2021 by region and discovered an increase of 47% in stalled construction projects, despite the growing demands for new homes. . Also, with unemployment under 4%, construction companies are having a hard time finding enough employees to meet their demand.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

At the highest points in 2019 and 2020, average home sale prices never went above $300,000 and $325,000, respectively. And on top of that, builders are struggling to construct new homes given an ongoing lumber shortage. Average listing prices never approached $325,000 in 2019.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

In order to account for uncertain prices and availability of materials, homebuilders are holding off on making homes available until they are further along in the construction process. This is not due to a lack of demand; quite the opposite, Speakman noted. ” Technology for navigating secondary market challenges. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Home price data is consistent with the hypothesis that COVID-19 has encouraged potential buyers to move from urban apartments to suburban homes,” Lazzara said. This demand may represent buyers who accelerated purchases that would have happened anyway over the next several years. increase and Seattle with a 18.3%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

By the end of 2019, just 4,608 people called the town home, However, by early 2021, the population was already rebounding, with roughly 6,000 people living in Paradise. We have had over 200 lots active on the market at one time since 2019, so we are a little low on inventory.”. So, it’s coming along, but it’s a slow process.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Though price growth has cooled and prices have begun to come down, high and still climbing mortgage rates mean many of today’s buyers face larger home payments than they would have when home prices were at their peak Hannah Jones, economic data analyst at Realtor.com. Buyers, builders and sellers take a step back as inflation persists .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

DBRS Morningstar’s rating of the $224 million securitization opened up new types of bond buyers that have inherently lower costs of capital, Saluda Grade CEO Ryan Craft said. Redwood, for instance, has been buying HEIs from third-party originators since 2019 and has been providing liquidity to portions of the nonagency mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

. “Lack of inventory continues to be the overwhelming factor holding back home sales, but falling affordability is simply squeezing some first-time buyers out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. The market’s outlook, however, is encouraging. Total housing inventory at the end of May grew to 1.23 million). “One

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2021

“Until new construction takes off — over the course of years, not months — home prices will continue to increase. The number of homes sold in April was up 34% from a year earlier, but only 8% from the same time in 2019. This housing boom is nowhere close to over.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But somebody has to replace the Fed, and the Fed is not an economic buyer. So they are a policy buyer. They may require wider spreads than the Fed because the Fed is not an economic buyer. Kim: The silver lining in the current housing market is an uptick in new construction sales due to a lack of existing-home inventory.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In October, home sales in Des Moines soared 34% compared to last year, with 1,547 sold properties compared to 1,150 in 2019, according to the Des Moines Area Association of Realtors. That, along with the tech jobs Des Moines has to offer and low mortgage rates , means new builds are more affordable for younger buyers. “I’ve

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. million to the lows of January 2019 at 4.98 They have to move as well, so a traditional seller is a buyer most of the time when it’s a primary resident owner. Higher rates and sales data. We can see that when rates rise, sales trends are traditionally lower. million to 5.12

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DataMaster

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the last year their price tags have jumped to levels that worry first-time buyers and would-be upgraders. Eighty-one percent of all home buyers have bachelor degrees or higher with similar numbers in the Millennials group. Only 23 percent of buyers 40-54 had student loan debt with a median balance of $30,000.

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Hank Miller Team

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2019 the housing market found its legs and combined with a historically strong economy and low rates, the housing market caught fire. The expectation is that the pace of new construction will pick up. Not only will it open options for first time buyers, move up buyers will have more to choose from. Until it wasn’t.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Under the new regulations, construction of new residential buildings can continue in areas that have a designated water provider since homebuilders and developers do not need an AWS certificate to obtain a building permit. The homes out there do tend to be more affordable though, so that is probably going to hurt some first time home buyers.”

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Eppraisal

MARCH 17, 2023

From COVID-19 interventions to supply chain disruptions to record inflation, the hits kept coming against a real estate market that was already experiencing diminished inventories and a growing pool of buyers. A fourth quarter surge in home sales during 2019 helped lower available properties even further. Where Have We Been?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This month, she is lucky to have $2 million in her pipeline thanks to closing deals on a construction loan, a condo and a vacant lot. million, below the 2019 range of 1.52 During the past 18 months — when refis were low-hanging fruit — the LO closed around $3 million a month. And it’s going to get worse. million to 1.93

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Empire Appraisal Group

APRIL 22, 2021

While higher housing costs and mortgage rates will chip away at buyer demand, the sheer volume of current buyers makes the next buyers’ market appear far away. Builders are still reacting to land, material and labor constraints that have dampened construction over the past decade or so. MECKLENBURG, Tenn. –

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2022

This is why I use the term replacement buyers for housing, and it applies to workers too. Take a look at the jobs data and which sector added jobs in February: Construction jobs came in big again, and we didn’t have any negative sectors the last month. After I retired the America is back recovery model on Dec.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

But if inflation continues to slow and rates stabilize, that could bring more buyers back to the market and boost demand for housing, Yun said. Home buyers still will face sticker shock, Hale said, “but they will have more time to make a decision and more options.”. NAHB: Sharp Contraction in Construction. Realtor.com®

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 10, 2023

The presence of this harmful construction material can lead to a range of issues from the quality of the property to the health of its inhabitants. With this in mind, buyers need to be thorough and diligent in protecting themselves. The best way you can protect yourself as a buyer is by conducting a thorough inspection of the property.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Powell: What I’m really saying is that we’ve had a time of a red-hot housing market, all over the country, where famously houses were selling to the first buyer at 10% above the ask, before even seeing the house … As you can see, Powell quickly outlines precisely what he doesn’t want to see: massive bidding wars for housing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2019 we published a feature story about “Who will be the Amazon of housing?” — and then explored world-domination theories that painted Zillow , Redfin , Opendoor (and maybe Amazon itself) taking over the entire end-to-end housing sales and financing process. Knock.com offers solutions for both buyers and sellers.

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DataMaster

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the last year their price tags have jumped to levels that worry first-time buyers and would-be upgraders. Education Eighty-one percent of all home buyers have bachelor degrees or higher with similar numbers in the Millennials group. Only 23 percent of buyers 40-54 had student loan debt with a median balance of $30,000.

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DataMaster

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the last year their price tags have jumped to levels that worry first-time buyers and would-be upgraders. Eighty-one percent of all home buyers have bachelor degrees or higher with similar numbers in the Millennials group. Only 23 percent of buyers 40-54 had student loan debt with a median balance of $30,000.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The world of construction appears to be one of the only commodity-based industries yet to become truly efficient in the production of homes, office space and specialty structures. Robert Gordon, a noted Northwestern University economist, estimates the construction industry recorded negative productivity growth around the turn of this century.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 26, 2022

Since 2019, a two-level tunnel has replaced the now-demolished viaduct, with the sounds of seagulls and smell of sea air a welcome replacement to highway clatter and vehicle exhaust. Construction on the new bridge is underway, along with the promenade and pool pavilion for sharks and stingrays. And that’s just the beginning.

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Quicken Loans

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So, it’s no wonder that a year like that left experts and new buyers guessing. Buyer demand continued. With a larger portion of the population working from their home, prospective buyers could move toward more suburban areas. During the past year, buyers faced a limited housing inventory which put sellers at an advantage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the market has struggled with a lack of inventory in 2021 and builders have reported ongoing supply chain challenges, there are more than 700,000 homes under construction right now, and a growing inventory of new homes for sale. The inventory of existing homes remains quite tight at less than 2.5 The encouraging news?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

billion in sales is still 40% above 2019 levels. In the multifamily space, by contrast sales are down 65% from where they were in 2019. Those sales include “major buyers” like Inland , Blackstone, Starwood and American Realty Advisors , the company pointed out in its report.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

single-family homes for sale were new construction, similar to the percentage from a year earlier and good for the highest level of any fourth quarter on record. In 2011, only 13% of homebuilders worried about the cost of labor, versus 87% in 2019. An estimated 668,000 new homes were sold in 2023, 4.2% Census Bureau and the U.S.

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