Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16, but there are signs that housing market demand may be reaching its peak, according to a recent study from Redfin. 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.). . from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. The divide between supply and demand is striking: compared to last year, total new listings increased.22%,

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

Numerous other sales records were also set, including the median home sale price ($354,250) and number of days on the market (17, down from 36 one year ago). Diving deeper, for the two week period ending May 9, 2021, 57% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market. from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Let’s dive into the trend lines of the housing market. The show-me part of the housing market starts with this bounce from an extreme bottom. However, we are going to see if 6% mortgage rates are good enough to create some growth in the future or if the housing market needs rates near 5%. Weekly inventory change (Jan.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But I need to explain why this level has more in common with 2014 housing data than the credit stress markets of 2005-2008, and why you should care. Understanding this data line and what it is trying to tell you will be more valuable than erroneously thinking the market is crashing and we’ll see a wave of foreclosures.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Armed with data from HousingWire sister company Altos Research , we can see in minute detail how the housing market responded to the recent 7%-and-higher rate environment and what the market may see again soon. This is clear in the chart below, which shows the year-over-year percent change in the four-week average of new listings.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. million, the equilibrium balance between a buyer and seller marketplace that has been here for four decades. One issue that has created a waterfall dive in purchase application data and sales is that new listing data is declining faster than usual.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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. The number of new listings was also down compared to 2020, dropping 4%, but it was 12% higher than the number of new listing during the same time period in 2019.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. The last time we saw prices decline, the combination of declining prices and bad mortgages forced inventory onto the market. This time, declining prices are likely tempering the pace of inventory going onto the market rather than accelerating.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The housing market saw inventory fall 4% last week from the week before. Traditionally, we do see housing inventory fall in the month of December, however, we clearly saw in the second half of 2022 that higher rates created more days on the market and inventory was lingering longer. That’s a big one-week change.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

It was the largest monthly jump in pending home sales since 2020. The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. But new listings activity grew by 9.1% in December, up from 71.6

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In May, I wrote about the signs to watch for a real estate market slowdown. The price of new listings is dropping. But it’s clear that the dramatic shift in the market is about more than just seasonal fluctuations. Home buyers got spooked when mortgage rates passed 5.5%. Some markets are hurting more than others.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter. It wasn’t the rate move that caught my attention — it was the new listing data. As you can see below, that sharp move to 6.25% caused new listing data to stall at first.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Census Bureau published last week shows how drastically housing inventory has changed since 2020, while weekly data from Altos Research offers some insights on where it goes from here. The number of homes “held off market” – second homes, vacation homes and others that are neither for-sale, for-rent or occupied – shrank.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

Competition between would-be homebuyers is still high, but an increase in homes hitting the market in June brought some relief from bidding wars. 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. million and 1.92

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

And 54% of homes sold above their asking price in May — another a record high, up from 26% a year ago, according to a new report from Redfin. The report also shows the housing market also set new records for home-selling speeds and competition, although seasonally adjusted home sales and new listings flattened from April.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . With the home-price growth we had in 2020 and 2021, my five-year price-growth model that I set for 2020-2024 of 23% was already smashed in just two years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. During that period, we saw new listing data decline.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Our data lines here at Housing — which track things weekly — show inventory is growing year over year with new listings growth as well. Another positive data line is that the days on market are above 30 days, which is something I would love to see year-round. From NAR : Total existing-home elevated 3.1% million in January.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The housing market may have started 2022 out with a bang, but it exited the year with a whimper,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement. With the exception of May 2020, when the pandemic had virtually shut down housing market activity, this is the lowest level of monthly home sales in 12 years.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The National Association of Realtors Confidence Index Survey for April reveals how hot the housing market is. Per the report, homes that sold had five offers on average , and nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16. The pandemic continues to impact how people live and work.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. Nicole Murphy with Realtor.com also said homes in El Paso are only staying on the market for an average of 53 days – down 20% from last year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. From the index : I know it seems strange, but existing home sales are falling, and the monthly supply of new homes is at 10.9 million listings.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors can usually count on their biggest season being spring, followed by summer, but nothing about 2020 has been normal, including home-buying patterns. With shut-down orders in the spring, summer became the new home-buying season, but homebuyers were still incredibly active in August. Over the last four weeks ending on Sept.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In turn, borrowers who are entering the market are leaning heavily toward buying down their first lien interest rates by paying points up front. Prior to the pandemic, buyers paid closer to 0.5 points on average, with a corresponding cost of about $1,500, in 2018 through 2020. “On and rate/term accounting for just 4.6%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. While DeRoussel’s experience sounds exactly like many of the stories that emerged from the pandemic-fueled homebuying frenzy of 2020 and 2021, this happened just a few weeks ago in early April 2024. “It

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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 We are witnessing a true V-shaped sales recovery as homebuyers continue their strong return to the housing market,” said Yun. million, a 1.1%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each week — for several months now — inventory levels of unsold homes on the market has been expanding compared to last year. New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. New listings each week, which were record few last year, are growing now. They essentially bypass the active market.

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McKissock

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Good news for agents working with first-time home buyers on a budget: after nearly two years of ultra-low inventory and rising property values, small, affordable homes are starting to hit the market at a steady rate. The median listing price rose slower in July than the month before, keeping the median housing price in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At Altos considers any score above 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

However, as we all know, after 2020, things are just more intense. . The question is, can lower mortgage rates save the housing market from its recent downtrend? This is why I focused my readers on the years 2020-2024, because if home prices only grew by 23% over five years, we would be ok.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 28, 2022

Has There Been a Shift In The Real Estate Market? From all indications, there has been a definite shift in the real estate market. The recent increase in interest rates has injected another variable into the market that participants are reacting to. The net effect would be an increase in the listing count.

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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It’s a new month, but it hasn’t gotten any easier for buyers out there. That’s great news if you are a seller though. . Homes are selling at such a feverish pace that active listings are plummeting across the board, further lowering our months of inventory available to buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country , the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory. “I Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings. Days on market is also trending back to what is more normal for our market as well.”

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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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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

It is nearly April, which means temperatures in the Austin metropolitan area are heating up — and so is the housing market. The market is still strong,” said Wendy Cash, a broker at Austin area-based Century 21 Hellmann Stribling. “The Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling.

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