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Pending home sales surged in December: NAR

Housing Wire

It was the largest monthly jump in pending home sales since 2020. The trade group also predicts that rent growth will ease due to sizable growth in apartment construction over the past three years. Looking ahead Confronted with limited existing home inventory, many buyers have pivoted to newly constructed homes.

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Can lower mortgage rates stop the housing recession?

Housing Wire

However, as we all know, after 2020, things are just more intense. . 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. We see some of this in the active listing data as new listings are declining. NAR total inventory data.

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Indiana’s housing market is primed to bounce back in 2024

Housing Wire

We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” From a seller’s standpoint it may make a bit more sense to sell now, so we are creating some more inventory and buyer are taking advantage of lower rates and more stable home prices.” According to Altos Research, as of Feb.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Housing Inventory. Home price s. for 2022. million in 2023.

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

I wouldn’t read too much into the fact that this new home sales report beat estimates, but I would say that in the future, if mortgage rates get back toward 6%, the homebuilders have creative ways to sell their homes that the existing home seller might not be inclined to do. However, this isn’t how inventory grows in America.

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December Real Estate Market Update

Listing Spark

Median Sales Price: $365,000 (up 19%) Closed Sales: 3,397 (up 23%) Average Days on Market: 33 (Down 29 days from this time last year) 2,842 Active Listings (Down 55%) 3,629 Pending Sales (Up 23%) 0.9 Months of Inventory (1.2 Months of Inventory (Compared to 3.3 Months of Inventory: (down 1.4 Dallas/Fort Worth.

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A look at Knoxville’s hot housing market

Housing Wire

Currently on Realtor.com , more than 2,000 homes are currently on the market in Knoxville with an average listing price of $270,000. But like the rest of the country, low housing inventory has hit the city hard. According to the Knoxville Area Association of Realtors , the number of houses for sale in 2020 was down 47.5%