Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With mortgage rates briefly topping 8% and home prices breaking records throughout the year, many would-be sellers simply decided not to bother listing their homes, exacerbating already tight inventories. New data from the U.S. Mortgage rates followed suit, walloping buyers’ purchasing power.

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Inventory Sellers Mortgage Marketing 419

Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

So let’s hope for more home sellers in 2024. 6-13): Inventory rose from 471,349 to 473,406 The inventory bottom for 2022 was 240,194 The inventory peak for 2023 is 569,898 For context, active listings for this week in 2015 were 931,002 I don’t want to jinx this because active inventory rose last year at this time. 2022 21.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. Since the credit standards have improved post-2010, we shouldn’t see distressed sellers until a job loss recession happens, even if sales fall noticeably.

Inventory 525

Inventory New Listings Housing Market Sellers 525

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.

Housing Market 436

Housing Market Marketing Inventory New Listings 436

Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

. “With little supply in the market, homes typically sold within 17 days — down from 27 days one year ago, as buyer competition heats up,” NAR said in a statement. “The share of first-time buyers decreased to 31% from 32% in the prior month, and 36% one year ago. 25% of all sales were cash sales, per the report.

Realtors 471

Realtors Buyers Housing Market New Listings 471

Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

But recently, we’ve started to see buyers get cold feet. Two of my buyers just had their offers accepted because the sellers’ first buyers backed out. The market is still competitive, but buyers are more trepidatious than they were at the start of 2021, and less willing to pull out every stop in order to win.”

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Inventory Housing Market Real Estate Agent Buyers 493

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I didn’t have to worry about this in the previous expansion — as my long-term work stated for a decade, the years 2008-2019, would have the weakest housing recovery ever. This article , which I wrote in 2019, does show you the historical work in the past decade on the housing bubble talk. This is not a positive for the housing market.

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Inventory Marketing Housing Market New Listings 464

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We negotiated to get the sellers the highest price possible. There are still plenty of buyers interested in this area. In fact, we had (number) offers, which means there are still ready, willing, and qualified buyers eager to make an offer! Many of us are in sellers’ markets with very low inventory.

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Real Estate Open Houses Brokerage Real Estate Agent 389

Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Pending sales for the seven-day period ending May 16 were down 10% from four weeks prior, compared to an 8% increase during the same period in 2019. 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.). . 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.).

Housing Market 539

Housing Market Marketing New Listings Mortgage 539

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Mortgage rates were 7.22% for conforming and 6.15% for jumbos at Mortgage News Daily on Wednesday, a spread of 107 bps. Buyers, builders and sellers take a step back as inflation persists . Sellers are responding to the shift in the market and pulling back on listing activity, resulting in a 9.8% The annual U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Existing home sales have more legs to go lower, especially now that new listing data is falling. A traditional primary resident seller is also a buyer, which means if they don’t list, they’re not just taking a potential home to be bought off the table — they’re taking a future sale off the books as well.

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Inventory Housing Market New Listings Mortgage 449

Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

year over year, largely on the back of pent-up demand from buyers who were unable to strike deals during the spring, said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. “We Home sellers are seeing their homes go under contract in record time, with nine new contracts for every 10 new listings.”.

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Contracts Realtors New Listings Real Estate 477

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Growing supply shortages are holding housing prices higher, and affordability constraints coupled with elevated rates lock potential sellers in place. 25, purchase lock counts were 21% below the same week in 2019, and 30% below the levels during the same week in 2018. As of the week ending Feb. Months of supply stagnated at about 3.1

Housing Market 392

Housing Market Marketing Inventory Sellers 392

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Prior to the pandemic, buyers paid closer to 0.5 While buyers seem to be returning to the market early in 2023, purchase loans locked in January are still off by 13% compared to the 2018 and 2019 pre-pandemic levels. For those looking to pull cash out of their homes, the cost was nearly twice that, with an average of 2.06

Inventory 382

Inventory Mortgage New Listings Home Value 382

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. million active listings, but at just 1.28 I talk about 2019 inventory levels a lot because in 2019 real home prices briefly went negative, showing that you don’t need to have six months plus of inventory to have pricing cool down.

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Sellers Inventory Housing Market New Listings 498

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. The downside of rates moving up so quickly is that some sellers pull the plug until rates are better. million to 5.12

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Mortgage Inventory Sellers Housing Market 498

Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

NAR Total Listing Data: If we cut the timeline to the last time inventory grew, which was 2014, you can see this downtrend in inventory, unlike 2001-2005, when inventory grew from 2 million to 2.5 crash, especially from 2012-2019. I don’t need to see total active listing get back to the historical range of 2-2.5 From Redfin.

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Inventory New Listings Law Housing Market 382

Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

We want to see whether this weekly data stops declining before the spring seasonal push in inventory or if we will have a repeat of the second half of 2022, where we saw a lack of new listing growth. What we don’t want to happen this year is a decline in new listing data on a yearly basis. The week ahead.

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Inventory Housing Market Marketing New Listings 540

Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

“I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. Buyers are really struggling.” We couldn’t even see it.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

One of my biggest concerns for housing started at the end of June 2022: once mortgage rates got above 6%, the new listing data began to decline faster and earlier than normal. This is a problem for the existing home sales market since a traditional seller is usually also a buyer, so the lack of listing growth was a big hit to demand.

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Inventory Housing Market Marketing Mortgage 531

Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

According to data from Altos Research as of March 15, the 90-day average number of single-family active listings in the Naples-Marco Island metro area was 2,362, up from 1,605 one year earlier but down from the 3,760 listings recorded in late March 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In comparison, the average U.S.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 27, 2023

The 2022 Connecticut Year in Review Housing Report breaks down sales, new listings, new pending sales, active inventory, and average price compared to the 2021 market and analyzes what the data means for the current housing market and beyond. sellers and buyers) began to restore itself. Sales Down 18.8%

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Inventory Sellers Buyers Real Estate 53

Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The suspicion was that there were a bunch of sellers who were waiting to sell: Once rates fell these sellers would come rushing back to this real estate market and we’d finally see inventory grow. Second, because people think of home sellers as being locked-in by high interest rates. That’s 15% growth over the pace of 2023.

Inventory 502

Inventory New Listings Sellers Real Estate 502

Hank Miller Team

APRIL 6, 2022

Traditionally, the months of May and June see the most new listings as the school cycle hits – graduating families sell and rising families buy. The charts below focus on key indicators; number of listings, number of sales, days on market and sale to list ratio. Buyers have to embrace measured risk right now.

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Inventory Contracts Buyers Sellers 94

Berkshire Hathaway

DECEMBER 9, 2021

According to Housing Wire, “During the four week period ending November 28, the number of active listings was a 23% decrease compared to the same time period in 2020 and a 42% drop compared to 2019. This marks a 14% year-over-year increase and a 31% increase from 2019.

Inventory 52

Inventory New Listings Buyers Marketing 52

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

At the same time, seller volume dried up. But now sellers are coming back into the market. New listing volume last week was 18% more than a year ago. NAR reported 33% all cash buyers, which is the most since 2014 when buyers were still cleaning up distressed properties. More sellers means more sales in 2024.

Inventory 457

Inventory New Listings Contracts Sellers 457

Berkshire Hathaway

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s no secret that this housing market is hard for buyers being that there are no homes available. In a normal market we see a 6-month supply of homes for sale and anything over that indicates it’s a buyers’ market, an inventory level below that threshold means we’re in a sellers’ market and today’s inventory level sits WELL below the norm.

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Inventory Buyers New Listings Sellers 37

Cornerstone

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is excellent news if you’re a seller. Average days on the market reflect current levels of buyer demand. If homes are flying off the shelves, so to speak, buyers need to be prepared to act and put in an offer quickly to beat out their competition. Buyers will likely compete for your home.

Sellers 53

Sellers Loan Officers Inventory New Listings 53

Listing Spark

AUGUST 28, 2020

this July as compared to July 2019. With the FED keeping rates at historic lows, we are seeing buyers locking in mortgage interest rates at 2.8% With rates this low, even buyers wary of an eventual downturn understand the value of buying now with that low of a rate, as opposed to waiting for prices to drop and risking higher interest.

Real Estate 69

Real Estate Marketing New Listings Inventory 69

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This is not a recipe to keep the home buyer momentum we saw building in December. Remember that the way to more selection for home buyers is with higher mortgage rates. Spring buyers’ market It’s the spring buyers market and inventory is falling each week. There are more buyers than sellers.

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Mortgage Inventory Sellers New Listings 430

Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

compared to December 2019 and 38.2% compared to the December 2017-2019 average. “In In December, we saw both buyers and sellers pulling back as they continue to adjust to a challenging market,” Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist, said in a statement. below its pre-pandemic 2019 level.

Inventory 530

Inventory Buyers New Listings Sellers 530

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.

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Marketing Inventory Sellers 52

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Even as money is more expensive and there are more sellers than a year ago, we can also see slight home sales growth over 2023. New listings rise New listings continue to show us that more sellers are interested in this market this year. Is new supply growing out of balance with demand?

Mortgage 497

Mortgage Inventory Sellers New Listings 497

Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

But it’ll take several more years of elevated mortgage rates before inventory builds back to pre-pandemic levels of 2019 or earlier. New listings There were 71,000 new, unsold listings of single-family homes across the country this week. More home sellers are coming back to the market each week.

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Inventory Contracts Sellers New Listings 434

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

While inventory is growing across the country, some markets are way more impacted and already have more homes on the market than in 2019 or 2020 just before the pandemic. Lower rates mean more buyer competition and less unsold inventory. New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market.

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Inventory New Listings Sellers Contracts 425

Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Indianapolis, which had 880,600 residents as of July 2022, offers a very strong and steady real estate market that attracts buyers looking for a more affordable lifestyle. In November of 2019 the number of single-family homes for sale was at 6,000. Indianapolis is more affordable than much of the country.

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Housing Market Marketing Logistics Real Estate 426

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

NAR Research : First-time buyers were responsible for 31% of sales in January; Individual investors purchased 16% of homes; All-cash sales accounted for 29% of transactions; Distressed sales represented 1% of sales; Properties typically remained on the market for 33 days. that don’t have inventory near 2019 levels.

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