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Housing inventory has never been lower

Housing Wire

It’s official – housing inventory in America is at a crisis level. 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.

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Mortgage applications fall amid low inventory, rising rates

Housing Wire

Additionally, home price appreciation and insufficient for-sale inventory are holding back purchase activity. . The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with jumbo loan balances (greater than $647,200) increased to 4.90% from 4.80%. Meanwhile, the seasonally adjusted purchase index decreased 3.4%

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Mortgage applications continue to fall, inventory remains low

Housing Wire

from the week ending April 2, with rising mortgage rates and low inventory contributing to the slowdown and leading to a decline in purchase mortgage activity, said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. It’s the sixth consecutive week of falling mortgage applications. Applications were down 3.7%

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Pending home sales down again in September

Housing Wire

An index level of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Contract transactions slowed a bit in September and are showing signs of a calmer home price trend, as the market is running comfortably ahead of pre-pandemic activity,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. in 2022.

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Pending home sales were flat in April, but the South is a bright spot

Housing Wire

“Elevated mortgage rates and economic uncertainty, along with still-low inventory, means that new pending sales were down more than 20% from a year ago, and were lower even compared to 2019 levels.” An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Regionally, the Midwest (78.4), South (99.6), and West (62.2)

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Pending home sales fall 5.2% in March

Housing Wire

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The lack of housing inventory is a major constraint to rising sales,” Lawrence Yun , NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. year over year in 2023 to 670,000 homes due to higher new home inventory than existing home inventory. year over year.

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Mortgage apps decline 6.5% to 22-year low

Housing Wire

“The purchase market has suffered from persistently low housing inventory and the jump in mortgage rates over the past two months. In May, the inventory of homes for sale rose 8%, marking the first rebound since June 2019. The median national home price also climbed to an all-time high of $447,00 last month, jumping 35.4%

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