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Coastal California metros were the priciest  in March: Zillow

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Home prices are surging in major U.S. metros, with coastal California cities and Seattle leading the charge in monthly home value growth, according to Zillow’s newest market report. These metros also continue to grapple with below-average inventory recovery, maintaining pressure on buyers.

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DataDigest: How and where homebuilders are closing deals

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The Western pessimism is also unsurprising given the year-over-year declines Western states have seen in home values. Builders reported covering closing costs, offering discounted or free features, helping buyers sell their existing home and providing other incentives. 2019 level. 2019 level.

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Equity jumps for Black homeowners, but problems remain

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The positive: Homeowners in primarily Black neighborhoods earned an average of $59,000 in home equity in 2020, compared with $50,000 for homeowners in primarily white neighborhoods between 2019 through January 2021. That $59,000 gain represents a median home equity increase of 197%. By 2021, that number shrank to $24,000.

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Borrowers opt for permanent rate buydowns amid affordability challenges

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Prior to the pandemic, buyers paid closer to 0.5 On the surface, it may seem the market has been stirred by a full point decline in interest rates and home prices coming off their peaks – but it’s not that simple,” Graboske said. points on average, with a corresponding cost of about $1,500, in 2018 through 2020. “On

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How the housing market will evolve in 2023

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Inventory What does that mean for housing? We can also expect low housing demand, which favors buyers. Until then, home values will slowly decline, most assuredly in high-cost areas and in areas of the country that benefited the most from rampant appreciation during the pandemic. most likely by mid-year.

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Home prices haven’t risen this fast since 2005

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Phoenix saw a 20% year-over-year home price increase, followed by San Diego with a 19.1% 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. increase and Seattle with a 18.3%. Presented by: MCT.

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Think US home prices are high? At least we aren’t Canada

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To persuade people of this, probably one of the most important articles I have ever written in my life was in 2019, titled: Housing Bubble 2019? It’s now evident that housing did not collapse and in fact home prices are savagely unhealthy. housing market is more tied to mortgage buyers. In addition, the U.S.

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